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automata

/aw-tom-uh-tuh/US // ɔˈtɒm ə tə //UK // (ɔːˈtɒmətə) //

自动机,自动机,自动装置,自动化

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a plural of automaton.

Examples

  • He constructed various machines and automata, among the most celebrated of which was his flying pigeon.

  • The worst of it is, these people live lives approaching automata.

  • Quar′ter-boys, automata which strike the quarter-hours in certain belfries.

  • They were unemotional automata, who knew nothing except to obey the orders of their terrible chief.

  • Descartes—a pupil of the Jesuits—only applied his theory to man, and regarded animals as soulless automata.