Manual
['mænjʊ(ə)l] or ['mænjuəl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a small handbook.
(adj.) requiring human effort; 'a manual transmission' .
(adj.) of or relating to the hands; 'manual dexterity' .
(adj.) doing or requiring physical work; 'manual labor'; 'manual laborer' .
校對:齐利格--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
(a.) A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
(a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
(a.) A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
整理:凯蒂
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Of the hand, by the hand.
n. Hand-book.
整理:贾丝廷
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to the hand: done made or used by the hand.—n. drill in the use of weapons &c.: a handbook: a handy compendium of a large subject or treatise: the key-board of an organ &c.: an old office-book like the modern R.C. ritual.—adv. Man′ually.—Manual alphabet the letters made by the deaf and dumb with the hand in conversation; Manual exercise the exercise by which soldiers are made to handle their arms.
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例句/造句/用法:
- How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This manual action seemed to deprecate words, to enjoin silence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He put such a vessel at work in a canal, working the pumps by manual labor, and suggested the employment of a steam engine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- And why are mean employments and manual arts a reproach? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The work is much quickened by the substitution of steam power, water power, or even horse power for manual labor. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- As he contemplated the concentration of six thousand tons daily, the expense of manual labor to move such an immense quantity of rock, sand, and ore would be absolutely prohibitive. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The fear of raw material is shown in laboratory, manual training shop, Froebelian kindergarten, and Montessori house of childhood. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Other modern inventions in well-making machinery have consisted in innumerable devices to supplant manual labour and to meet new conditions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The types are inked by a series of rollers, by which the ink is distributed and evenly laid on the face of the types without any manual labour. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The process of bottling requires great manual dexterity. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Ordinary manual transmission by key is not in excess of forty to fifty words a minute. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Man’s natural dislike for manual labor quickly found objection to the physical effort of bicycle travel, and accordingly sought to devise mechanical means of overcoming it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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