Mechanic
[mɪ'kænɪk] or [mə'kænɪk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) resembling the action of a machine; 'from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet'- Emily Dickenson .
校對:卡特里娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
迦勒編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, operative, workman, hand, ARTIFICER.
校對:赛克
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Artisan, craftsman, workman, artificer
凯西整理
解釋/意思:
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.
校對:马蒂
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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/造句/用法:
- Before the waiter had answered the call, the mechanic had vanished. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I asked the sergeant mechanic. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Robert Jordan took the cigarette and put it in the breast pocket of his blue mechanic jumper. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He was a wonderful mechanic; the control that he had of his fingers was marvellous, and his eyesight was sharp. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr. Taylor, Mr. Wright’s mechanic, got out the machine and it was placed on the starting-rail. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In the greatest part of mechanic trades success is almost certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The mechanic, paying no heed to Gutenberg’s excitement, made the press for him according to the model. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- Just as he came to this conclusion, who should appear, on the opposite side of the street as usual, but the mechanic again! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He noticed the mechanic waiting, as he himself was waiting--but still on the opposite side of the street. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The mechanic had not come out yet. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- Certain mechanics in New England, who had heard descriptions of his model, built machines on its lines, and sold them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Trade sharpens wer wits; and them that's mechanics like me is forced to think. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In 1840 Davenport, by means of his electric motor, printed a news sheet called the _Electro Magnet and Mechanics’ Intelligencer_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They were all mechanics and hated the war. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- One of them (Archytas, 428-347 B.. a friend o f Plato) was the first to apply geometry to mechanics. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- It involves the structure of the limbs and the nervous system; the principles of mechanics. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
編輯:塞格雷