microphone

• n. スピーカー、マイク

micro-、小さな、電話、電話機。比喩的用法。

microphone (n.)

1680s, "ear trumpet for the hard-of-hearing," coined from Greek mikros "small" (see mica) + phone "sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Modern meaning dates from 1929, from use in radio broadcasting and movie recording. Earlier, "amplifying telephone transmitter" (1878). Of the two spellings of the short form of the word, mike (1927) is older than mic (1961).

1. He wore a hidden microphone to secretly tape-record conversations.

彼はマイクロホンを身につけていて、こっそり会話の内容を録音しようとしています。

2.All you need is a microphone ，and you 're in business.

もう1本マイクを持ってきて、あなたは準備万端です。

3.My hand shook so much that I could hardly hold the microphone .

私の手はこんなに震えていて、ほとんどマイクを持てませんでした。

4.They started handing the microphone out round the girls at the front.

彼らはマイクを前の女の子たちに渡し始めた。

5.He found it hard to work with a microphone pointing at him.

彼はマイクに向かって仕事に専念するのが難しいことに気づいた。