e-mail

英 ['i:meɪl] 美['i,mel]

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复数: e-mails;第三人称单数: e-mails;过去式: e-mailed;过去分词: e-mailed;现在分词: e-mailing;

1、electronic + mail.
2. 音译“伊妹儿”。

e-mail: 1982, short for electronic mail (1977; see electronic + mail (n.1)); this led to the contemptuous application of snail mail (1983) to the old system.
Even aerial navigation in 1999 was found too slow to convey and deliver the mails. The pneumatic tube system was even swifter, and with such facilities at hand it is not surprising that people in San Francisco received four daily editions of the Manhattan journals, although the distance between Sandy Hook and the Golden Gate is a matter of 3,600 miles. ["Looking Forward," Arthur Bird, 1899]
Associated Press style guide collapsed it to email 2011.

1. Bruce Springsteen has re-hired his muso collective, the E Street Band.: 布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀重新组建了他的音乐团队，E街乐队。

2. Large supplemental doses of vitamin E can slightly raise blood pressure.: 大剂量补充维生素E可能会造成血压偏高。

3. These reactive mole-cules are mopped up and made harmless by Vitamin E.: 这些活性分子已被维生素E灭活，没有害处了。

5. "O.O.B.E." is short for "Out Of Body Experience".: O.O.B.E.是OutOfBodyExperience（身外体验）的缩略形式。