Galvanize
['ɡælvənaɪz]
解释:
(verb.) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock.
(verb.) cover with zinc; 'galvanize steel'.
艾伯特整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
(v. t.) To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.
(v. t.) To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.
(v. t.) To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.
校对:马特
例句:
- It was already known how to vulcanize rubber, and how to galvanize iron. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- To make this incubator get your tinner to make you a tank 15 inches wide, 30 inches long, and 12 inches deep, of galvanized iron or zinc, the iron being preferable. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- So the scream of Sabor, the lioness, galvanized the brain and muscles of little Tarzan into instant action. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They are generally galvanized to prevent them from rusting. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Dr. Steinheil also introduced the use of galvanized iron wire. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Galvanized Iron invented by Craufurd. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The wires themselves are about one-sixth of an inch in diameter; they are made of iron coated with zinc, or galvanized, as it is termed, to protect them from rust. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- In _coating with metals_, the so-called galvanizing of iron is an important art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- And this intention is the half-perceived current which runs through our age and galvanizes so many queer revolts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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