Mechanism
['mek(ə)nɪz(ə)m] or ['mɛkənɪzəm]
解释:
(noun.) the technical aspects of doing something; 'a mechanism of social control'; 'mechanisms of communication'; 'the mechanics of prose style'.
(noun.) device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function.
(noun.) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes.
(noun.) a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function; 'the mechanism of the ear'; 'the mechanism of infection'.
(noun.) the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction; 'he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions'.
昌西整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.
(n.) Mechanical operation or action.
(n.) An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
整理:帕斯夸里
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Mechanical action, mechanical agency.[2]. Machinery.
手打:波莱特
例句:
- Notwithstanding its simple action, its structure is complicated by a large amount of adding mechanism. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- And he was hoisted, first by the mechanism which was used to hoist the arc light but this broke-- 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- In Fig. 282 is given a section and plan view of the Greener mechanism, which was patented July 6, 1880, No. 229,604, and was one of the first guns of this kind put on the market. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- These machines mark an important departure, which consists in working the buttonhole by moving the stitch forming mechanism about the buttonhole, instead of moving the fabric. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- This iron shell is put in place segmentally by means of a shield, an ingenious mechanism which both protects the work under construction and assists in the building of the iron shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It was mechanical, but then society WAS a mechanism. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Yet the unfailing mechanism of her will worked on, she had that activity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- In this manner the letters of the alphabet were indicated by dots upon a strip of paper, kept slowly moving by clock mechanism. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- By an ingenious arrangement of the mechanism, the film moves intermittently so that it may have a much longer period of rest than of motion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The earth is more than a mechanism, it is an organism that repairs and restores itself in perpetuity. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- When the pointed tube was driven until water was reached the inner tube was withdrawn and a pump mechanism inserted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Above this cylinder is the mechanism that acts upon the keys. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- For this purpose an original record by suitable mechanism is made to take the place of the speaker or singer, and so multiplies and reproduces the original record. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Its mechanism was so incomprehensible to most people that they refused to regard it seriously. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Let them turn into mechanisms, let them. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Other mechanisms cut and divided the block into strips, which were then dipped at one end, dried and tied in bundles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Great Range of Mechanisms to Treat the Tenderest Pods and Smallest Seeds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- We must not conclude this notice of Paper Making Machinery without alluding to the ingenious self-acting mechanisms for making envelopes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Vast Rolls, and Most Delicate Watch Mechanisms, cut by the Lathe and its Tools. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The making of roads, railroads, canals and tunnels has called forth thousands of ingenious mechanisms for their accomplishment. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In one form or another this construction enters into most all modern breech mechanisms. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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