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
- : 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.
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