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play sth on a gramophone
用介词 on 表示播放设备。
She played her favorite jazz record on the gramophone.
她在留声机上播放她最喜欢的爵士唱片。
留声机
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
留声机
an old-fashioned record player that plays sound acoustically by amplifying the vibrations of a needle
She played her favorite jazz record on the gramophone.
她在留声机上播放她最喜欢的爵士唱片。
通过振动针放大声音的古董留声机
an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically
My grandfather still keeps an old gramophone in the living room.
我祖父还在客厅里留着一台旧留声机。
She wound up the gramophone and carefully placed the needle on the record.
她给留声机上紧发条，然后小心地把唱针放到唱片上。
Those beautiful gramophones from the 1920s are very expensive now.
那些二十世纪二十年代的漂亮留声机现在非常贵。
用介词 on 表示播放设备。
She played her favorite jazz record on the gramophone.
她在留声机上播放她最喜欢的爵士唱片。
wind up 的过去式是 wound，表示给留声机上发条使其转动。
He wound up the gramophone before putting on the needle.
他在放上唱针之前给留声机上发条。
The sound of the old gramophone filled the room.
那台旧留声机的声音充满了房间。
Not this
He bought gramophone.
Use this
He bought a gramophone.
gramophone 是可数名词，单数可数名词前不能没有限定词；汉语没有冠词，容易漏用 a/an，因此应加 a。
Not this
I listened the gramophone.
Use this
I listened to the gramophone.
listen 是不及物动词，表示‘听……’时要接介词 to；受汉语‘听留声机’的直译影响，容易漏掉 to，所以应写 listen to the gramophone。
Not this
There are two gramophone in the shop.
Use this
There are two gramophones in the shop.
gramophone 的复数形式是 gramophones；汉语名词没有复数变化，学习者容易忘记在可数名词复数后加 -s，所以 two 后要用 gramophones。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
给留声机上发条
Grandpa wound up the gramophone and put on a record.
爷爷给留声机上好发条，放上一张唱片。
留声机唱针
He replaced the gramophone needle before playing the old record.
他在播放旧唱片之前更换了留声机唱针。
古董留声机
The antique gramophone in the living room still works perfectly.
客厅里的那台古董留声机仍然能正常播放。
用留声机听音乐
They spent the whole evening listening to music on a gramophone in the corner.
他们整个晚上都在角落里用留声机听音乐。
留声机喇叭
The gramophone horn gave the machine its distinctive shape.
留声机喇叭赋予了这台机器独特的造型。
主人之声
The famous painting shows a dog named Nipper sitting beside a gramophone, listening to his master's voice.
这幅名画描绘了一只名叫尼珀的狗坐在留声机旁，聆听主人的声音。
Use gramophone naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 gram 想成“刻下的痕迹”，phone 想成“声音”：留声机把声音刻在唱片上。
语域：neutral 常见场景：historical writing、museum exhibits、antique shops gramophone 多用于指老式留声机，常出现在历史叙述、博物馆介绍或古董收藏等语境中，语气中性且略带正式感。
These words share the final spelling '-phone' and the unstressed ending /fəʊn/, but they are not true rhymes with 'gramophone', which has its stress on the first syllable /ˈɡræm-/. None of them stresses the final syllable, so no common perfect rhyme exists.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.