engine
美音:
[´endʒən
]英音:
[´endʒən
]n.发动机,机车,火车头
难易程度:
engine为小学词汇
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词形变化:
动词过去式:engined 过去分词:engined 现在分词:engining 第三人称单数:engines
近义词, 同义词
engine
/'endʒɪn; `ɛndʒən/
n
1 machine with moving parts that converts energy such as heat, electricity, etc into motion 发动机; 引擎
*This car has a new engine. 这辆汽车的发动机是新的.
* a steam/diesel/petrol engine 蒸汽[柴油/汽油]发动机.
2 (also locomotive) machine that pulls or pushes a railway train 机车; 火车头
*I prefer to sit (ie in a railway carriage) facing the engine. 我喜欢面朝机车坐(在火车车厢里).
3 (arch 古) machine or instrument 机器; 工具
*engines of war, eg cannons 战争工具(如大炮)
* siege engines 攻城器械.
engine
n[C][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;Origin: engin
'cleverness, machine', from
Latin ingenium
'abilities you are born with']
the part of a vehicle that produces power to make it move
→
motorstart/switch on an engine The engine won't start.stop/turn off/switch off an engine He switched off the car's engine and waited. Is the engine running smoothly?diesel/petrol etc engine an old steam engine We were stranded with engine trouble on a deserted highway.a vehicle that pulls a railway train
[usually singular]formalsomething powerful that causes great changes in society
engine of change/growth etc The Marshall Plan was the engine of postwar economic growth. Rome's deadly war engine→
fire engine
1. We need to have our rotary engine repaired. 我们需要让人修一下旋转引擎。
2. We felt sure that sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine. 我们想念迟早会飞起一个石块把油箱砸开一个窟窿,或者把发动机砸坏。
3. That old engine is the archetype of modern locomotives. 那台老式发动机是近代机车的原形。
4. They started the engine. 他们开始发动引擎.
5. The steam-engine piston makes a cyclic motion. 蒸汽机活塞做往复运动。
6. The engine works satisfactorily. 这引擎性能良好,令人满意。
7. He had travelled only seven miles across the Channel when his engine failed and he was forced to land on the sea. 但他只在海峡上空飞行7英里,引擎就发生了故障,他只好降落在海面上。
8. His engine failed and he landed on the sea for the second time. 因引擎故障第二次降落在海面上。
9. He called his machine an aspirator (吸气器). The huge device was powered by a steam engine. 他称之为吸气器。这个巨大的装置是由蒸汽机带动的。
10. And we have to lower into the ground and haul out of the ground great lengths of drill pipe which are rotated by an engine at the top and are fitted with a cutting bit at the bottom. 我们必须把很长的钻杆一节节地钻入地下,然后再从地下拉出来。钻杆顶部安装的发动机带动钻杆旋转,它的底部装有钻头。
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