morse: [19] People had for some years been experimenting with the magnetic telegraph, but it was the American inventor Samuel Morse (1791–1872) who in 1836 produced the first workable system. And with his assistant Alexander Bain he devised a set of dots and dashes representing letters and numbers which could be used for transmitting messages, and which came to be known as the Morse code. In the first half of the 20th century morse was also used as a verb: ‘It can be used for Morsing instructions about breakfast to the cook’, Punch 31 March 1920.
双语例句
1. You can go home afterwards and watch Inspector Morse in colour.
之后你就可以回家,看彩色版的电视连续剧《摩斯警长》。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Mrs. Morse remarked that she seemed a very nice girl.
莫斯太太评论说她像是个好女孩.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The Morse Code is made up of dots and dashes.
莫尔斯电码由点和画线组成.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. In Morse code all letters are four or fewer characters long.
在Morse电码中所有字母的长度只有四个或不到四个符号.
来自辞典例句
5. When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked.