time-capsule 的詞源
time-capsule(n.)
1938年,指的是一个“被认为能够抵御时间影响五千年,保存普遍成就记录”的东西,该物品“埋藏在纽约世界博览会的场地内。”参见 time (n.) + capsule (n.)。当时被一些人视为夸张宣传。
Jones [archaeologist of A.D. 5139] potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a "Time Capsule." Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic tribal ceremony called a "publicity gag" of which he has already found many examples. [Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 14, 1939]
Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic tribal ceremony called a "publicity gag" of which he has already found many examples.
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