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machinelike

/muh-sheen-lahyk/US // məˈʃinˌlaɪk //

机制性的,机制化,机制,机制性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.

Examples

  • The only fault to find with these garments is their machinelike cut.

  • Even that, however, in a person whose machinelike attitude towards her provoked her resentment, was noticeable.

  • The place was set on fire with help of machinelike bicycle pumps with which many of the soldiers were furnished.

  • Its huge multiple eyes stared with machinelike preoccupation at the world.

  • It was super-machinelike, and it helped to crush out the glimmering bit of soul that was all that was left him from former life.