英语词汇karaoke的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

karaoke. The Japanese invented this form of entertainment and the name for it in the late 1970s. Karaoke, frequently of- fered by bars and clubs, consists of people taking turns singing songs into a microphone over prerecorded tracks that contain music but not the words to the songs. The entertainment has spread worldwide, and many people have karaoke machines in their homes. The word is composed of the Japanese kara, “emp- ty,” and oke, an abbreviation of okesutora, a Japanese rendering of the English orchestra. Literally it means “empty orchestra.”

词汇	karaoke
词源	karaoke. The Japanese invented this form of entertainment and the name for it in the late 1970s. Karaoke, frequently of- fered by bars and clubs, consists of people taking turns singing songs into a microphone over prerecorded tracks that contain music but not the words to the songs. The entertainment has spread worldwide, and many people have karaoke machines in their homes. The word is composed of the Japanese kara, “emp- ty,” and oke, an abbreviation of okesutora, a Japanese rendering of the English orchestra. Literally it means “empty orchestra.”
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