| 词汇 | refrigerator |
| 词源 | refrigerator. The first refrigerator was named by its inventor, Maryland farmer Thomas Moore, in 1803. Moore coined the word from the Latin re-, “thoroughly,” plus frigerare, “to cool.” His invention was actually an icebox and such devices were usually called that until the first electric refrigerator was in- vented in 1916. It wasn’t until the 1930s that refrigerators be- came inexpensive enough to begin replacing iceboxes in Amer- ican homes. |
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