record CET4 TEM4 ( recording, recorded, records )

名词读作ˈrɛkɔːd，动词读作rɪˈkɔːd。

• 1. 

  N-COUNT If you keep a record of something, you keep a written account or photographs of it so that it can be referred to later. 记录; 记载

  例：

  Keep a record of all the payments.

  对所有付款做一个记录。

  例：

  There's no record of any marriage or children.

  没有任何有关结婚或子女的记录。

• 2. 

  V-T If you record a piece of information or an event, you write it down, photograph it, or put it into a computer so that in the future people can refer to it. 记录; 记载

  例：

  Her letters record the domestic and social details of diplomatic life in China.

  她的信件记录了在中国的外交生活中家庭和社会活动的细节。

• 3. 

  V-T If you record something such as a speech or performance, you put it on tape or film so that it can be heard or seen again later. 录音; 录像

  例：

  There is nothing to stop viewers from recording the films on videotape.

  没有办法阻止观众用录像带录下电影。

• 4. 

  V-T If a musician or performer records a piece of music or a television or radio show, they perform it so that it can be put onto CD, tape, or film. 录制

  例：

  It took the musicians two and a half days to record their soundtrack for the film.

  音乐家们花了两天半的时间录制电影的配乐。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT A record is a round, flat piece of black plastic on which sound, especially music, is stored, and which can be played on a record player. You can also refer to the music stored on this piece of plastic as a record. 唱片

  例：

  This is one of my favourite records.

  这是我最喜欢的唱片之一。

• 6. 

  V-T If a dial or other measuring device records a certain measurement or value, it shows that measurement or value. 标明; 显示

  例：

  The test records the electrical activity of the brain.

  这个测试显示出大脑的电流活动。

• 7. 

  N-COUNT A record is the best result that has ever been achieved in a particular sport or activity, for example the fastest time, the farthest distance, or the greatest number of victories. 纪录

  例：

  Roger Kingdom set the world record of 12.92 seconds.

  罗杰·金顿创下了12.92秒的世界纪录。

• 8. 

  ADJ You use record to say that something is higher, lower, better, or worse than has ever been achieved before. 创纪录的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  Profits were at record levels.

  利润水平是创纪录的。

• 9. 

  N-COUNT Someone's record is the facts that are known about their achievements or character. 经历; 履历

  例：

  His record reveals a tough streak.

  他的经历说明他个性坚强。

• 10. 

  N-COUNT If someone has a criminal record, it is officially known that they have committed crimes in the past. (犯罪) 记录

  例：

  ...a heroin addict with a criminal record going back 15 years.

  …一名15年前留有案底的海洛因吸食成瘾者。

• 11. 

  → see also recording, track record

• 12. 

  PHRASE If you say that what you are going to say next is for the record, you mean that you are saying it publicly and officially and you want it to be written down and remembered. 供记录在案

  例：

  We're willing to state for the record that it has enormous value.

  我们愿意申明它有巨大的价值并望其能被记录在案。

• 13. 

  PHRASE If you give some information for the record, you give it in case people might find it useful at a later time, although it is not a very important part of what you are talking about. 顺便说一下; 仅供参考

  例：

  For the record, most Moscow girls leave school at about 18.

  随便说一下，多数莫斯科女孩大约十八岁离开学校。

• 14. 

  PHRASE If something that you say is off the record, you do not intend it to be considered as official, or published with your name attached to it. 非正式的; 不得公开引用的

  例：

  May I speak off the record?

  我可以私下里说吗？

• 15. 

  PHRASE If you are on record as saying something, you have said it publicly and officially and it has been written down. 公开宣布并记录在案的

  例：

  The president is on record as saying that the increase in unemployment is "a price worth paying" to keep inflation down.

  总统公开说失业率的上升是遏制通货膨胀“值得付出的代价”。

• 16. 

  PHRASE If you keep information on record, you write it down or store it in a computer so that it can be used later. 记录在案的

  例：

  The practice is to keep on record any analysis of samples.

  这项工作是为了记录下对样品的所有分析。