c. 1500, "person who prints books, etc.," agent noun from print (v.). As a mechanical device from 1859, originally in telegraphy. In the computer sense, from 1946. Printer's bible (c. 1702) so called from mistaken substitution of printers for princes in Psalm cxix:161, which led to the misreading:
Printers have persecuted me without a cause.
雙語例句
1. computer consumables such as disks and printer cartridges
如磁盤、打印機(jī)墨盒之類的電腦耗材
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. a daisy wheel printer
菊瓣字輪打印機(jī)
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. Click on the printer icon with the mouse.
用鼠標(biāo)點(diǎn)擊打印機(jī)圖標(biāo)。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. the interface between computer and printer
計(jì)算機(jī)和打印機(jī)之間的接口
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
5. The printer has left out two lines from this paragraph.