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machinery

/muh-shee-nuh-ree/US // məˈʃi nə ri //UK // (məˈʃiːnərɪ) //

机械,机器,机具,机械装置

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ma·chin·er·ies.

    • : an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
    • : the parts of a machine, collectively: the machinery of a watch.
    • : a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained: the machinery of government.
    • : a group of contrivances for producing stage effects.
    • : the group or aggregate of literary machines, especially those of supernatural agency in an epic poem.

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Examples

  • Anti-vaxxers have also seized on the fact that some developers are using a relatively new technology called messenger RNA that attempts to alter the body’s protein-making machinery.

  • It looks circular, but this is because of some impressive perceptual machinery in your mind.

  • They built a model to explain why the photosynthetic machinery of plants wastes green light.

  • Somehow they’ve managed to fine-tune their machinery so that it’s perfectly suited to conditions in that ice.

  • Standard ultrasound machinery is around 15 times heavier than the Butterfly iQ, which displays images on a mobile app.

  • In the same way, bikes no longer look to me like a single mass of machinery.

  • While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

  • If you zoom in on Google Maps, you can just make out the jumbles of industrial machinery tucked away inside.

  • Ferris treats celebrity machinery as a means of whitewashing the past.

  • We have provided the machinery to restore our financial system; it is up to you to support and make it work.

  • We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old—the age of machinery and power.

  • Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.

  • Even a minor dislocation breaks down a certain part of the machinery of society.

  • His voice grated—like machinery started with violent effort against resistance.

  • When the machinery had been stopped, it was found that Mr. Jones's arms and legs were macerated to a jelly.