英语词汇canned music的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	canned music
词源	canned music; canned laughter. O. Henry coined the ex- pression canned music, prerecorded music, in a 1904 story. “The Latin races . . . are peculiarly adapted to be victims of the phonograph,” advises one of his characters. Replies another character: “Then we’ll export canned music to the Latins.” The term is based on canned tins of food, and it led to later expres- sions like canned speeches and the canned laughter used for ra- dio and television shows. See know one’s cans.
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