Mechanic
[mɪ'kænɪk] or [mə'kænɪk]
解释:
(adj.) resembling the action of a machine; 'from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet'- Emily Dickenson .
校对:卡特里娜--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
(a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.
(a.) Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
(a.) Base.
迦勒编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. Artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, operative, workman, hand, ARTIFICER.
校对:赛克
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Artisan, craftsman, workman, artificer
凯西整理
解释:
adj. pertaining to machines or mechanics: constructed according to the laws of mechanics: possessing mechanical talent: acting by physical power: done by a machine: pertaining to artisans: done simply by force of habit slavish artificial: vulgar.—n. Mechan′ic one engaged in a mechanical trade: an artisan—(Shak.) Mechan′ical.—adv. Mechan′ically.—ns. Mechanic′ian Mech′anist a machine-maker: one skilled in mechanics; Mechan′ics the science which treats of machines: the science which treats of the nature of forces and of their action on bodies either directly or by the agency of machinery.—v.t. Mech′anise to make mechanical: to work out the details of a machine.—ns. Mech′anism the construction of a machine: the arrangement and action of its parts by which it produces a given result; Mech′anograph a copy esp. of a work of art produced by a mechanical process on a machine.—adj. Mech′anographic.—ns. Mechanog′raphist; Mechanog′raphy the art of multiplying copies of a writing or work of art by means of a machine; Mechanol′ogy a treatise on mechanics: the knowledge of such.—Mechanical effect work produced by the use of mechanical power; Mechanical philosophy the principles of mechanics applied to solve questions or phenomena involving force; Mechanical powers the elementary forms or parts of machines—three primary the lever inclined plane and pulley; and three secondary the wheel-and-axle the wedge and the screw.—Mechanics' institute an institution for mechanics with lectures library museum &c.
校对:马蒂
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a mechanic, denotes change in your dwelling place and a more active business. Advancement in wages usually follows after seeing mechanics at work on machinery.
整理:泰丝
例句:
- Before the waiter had answered the call, the mechanic had vanished. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I asked the sergeant mechanic. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- But some of the poorer free citizens followed mechanic arts, and, as we have already noted, would even pull an oar in a galley for pay. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Robert Jordan took the cigarette and put it in the breast pocket of his blue mechanic jumper. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He was a wonderful mechanic; the control that he had of his fingers was marvellous, and his eyesight was sharp. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Mr. Taylor, Mr. Wright’s mechanic, got out the machine and it was placed on the starting-rail. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The very broad patent taken out by this simple mechanic, so far ahead of his times, was the first one issued in America for an electric motor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In the greatest part of mechanic trades success is almost certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The mechanic, paying no heed to Gutenberg’s excitement, made the press for him according to the model. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It was a great step from the reciprocating hand saw, worked painfully by one or two men, to the band saw, invented by a London mechanic, William Newbury, in 1808. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Just as he came to this conclusion, who should appear, on the opposite side of the street as usual, but the mechanic again! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He noticed the mechanic waiting, as he himself was waiting--but still on the opposite side of the street. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The mechanic had not come out yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Then came Julius Griffith, in 1821, of Brompton, who patented a steam carriage which was built by Joseph Bramah, one of the ablest mechanics of his time. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Certain mechanics in New England, who had heard descriptions of his model, built machines on its lines, and sold them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Trade sharpens wer wits; and them that's mechanics like me is forced to think. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In 1840 Davenport, by means of his electric motor, printed a news sheet called the _Electro Magnet and Mechanics’ Intelligencer_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But it required the work of the chemists as well as the mechanics to produce the best gas. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It looked an insignificant thing to have conferred upon the world of science and mechanics such a mighty extension of their dominions as it has. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- They were all mechanics and hated the war. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The emphasis which directs his thinking bears most heavily upon the mechanics of life--only perfunctorily upon the ability of the men who are to use them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- One of them (Archytas, 428-347 B.. a friend o f Plato) was the first to apply geometry to mechanics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It involves the structure of the limbs and the nervous system; the principles of mechanics. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- With a strong taste for mechanics it was natural that he should wonder if there were not some way of lightening the burden of so much needlework. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
编辑:塞格雷