Automaton

[ɔː'tɒmət(ə)n] or [ɔ'tɑmətən]

解释:

(noun.) a mechanism that can move automatically.

(noun.) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; 'only an automaton wouldn't have noticed'.

弗朗辛校对--From WordNet

解释:

(v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.

(v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

艾达校对

解释:

n. a self-moving machine or one which moves by concealed machinery: a living being regarded as without consciousness: the self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems by which movement is effected without intelligent determination: a human being who acts by routine without intelligence:—pl. Autom′atons Autom′ata.—adjs. Automat′ic -al.—adv. Automat′ically.—ns. Autom′atism automatic or involuntary action: power of self-moving: power of initiating vital processes from within the cell organ or organism independently of any direct or immediate stimulus from without: the doctrine that animals are automata their motions &c. being the result of mechanical laws; Autom′atist one who holds the doctrine of automatism.

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