| 单词 | album |
| 例句 | album noun 1.•an album of pressed flowers:scrapbook, register, collection, treasury. 2.•what is your favorite Pink Floyd album? record, CD, recording, disc | LP, vinyl.WORD NOTE album Variations in the format of recorded music: single (typically two songs), maxisingle (a long single), EP (for "extended play"), twelve-inch (a vinyl maxisingle), long-player (at least 25 minutes in the 1960s, at least 40 minutes today), box set (two or more records packaged together). A collection on CD is still an album, a record, and a long-player (but not an LP, that's a category of vinyl). Till the 1950s, an album was a batch of 78-rpm records sold in a book that looked like a photo album. The playback medium has always influenced the length of albums: for example, today's 40-minute minimum is to ensure that two albums won't fit on one CD. When the medium is as large as the Internet itself, the album will have to find its own length, if it survives at all. — SMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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