engine

英 ['endʒɪn] 美['ɛndʒɪn]

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近义词motor power generator plant dynamo turbine

n. 引擎，发动机；机车，火车头；工具

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中文词源

engine 引擎，发动机

来自拉丁语ingenium, 来自词根gen，生育，词源同gene, generate.原指内生的天赋，技术，后用来指机械装置。

词态变化

复数: engines;

助记提示

1. 音译“引擎”。

英文词源

engine: engine: [13] The underlying etymological meaning of engine is ‘natural talent’. It comes ultimately from Latin ingenium (source also of English ingenious) which was formed from the base *gen- (as in genetic) denoting ‘reproduction’ and meant literally ‘skill or aptitude one was born with’. Abstract meanings related to this (such as ‘ingenuity’ and ‘genius’) have now died out in English (which acquired the word via Old French engin), but what remains is a more specific strand of meaning in the Latin word – ‘clever device, contrivance’.

Originally this was an abstract concept (often used in a bad sense ‘trick, cunning ruse’), but as early as about 1300 there is evidence of a more concrete application in English to a ‘mechanical device’. The word’s modern use for ‘machine producing motion’ originates in its early 19thcentury application to the steam engine. Engineer [14] comes via Old French engigneor from medieval Latin ingeniātōr, a derivative of the verb ingeniāre ‘contrive’, which in turn came from ingenium.
=> gin, ingenious
engine (n.): c. 1300, "mechanical device," especially one used in war; "manner of construction," also "skill, craft, innate ability; deceitfulness, trickery," from Old French engin "skill, wit, cleverness," also "trick, deceit, stratagem; war machine" (12c.), from Latin ingenium "inborn qualities, talent" (see ingenious), in Late Latin "a war engine, battering ram" (Tertullian, Isidore of Seville). Sense of "device that converts energy to mechanical power" is 18c.; in 19c. especially of steam engines.

双语例句

1. Water in the engine compartment is sucked away by a hose.: 发动机舱里的水由一条软管抽走。

2. In 1941, the train would have been pulled by a steam engine.: 1941年，火车本可以由蒸汽机车拉动。

3. Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine.: 其中两人下车鼓捣引擎。

4. Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car.: 阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。

5. The GM diesel engine shunted the coaches to Platform 4.: 通用柴油动力火车头将车厢转轨到了4号月台。

英英释意

1. motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work

2. something used to achieve a purpose;: "an engine of change"

3. a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

考试真题

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

Until ships became large enough (and engines small enough) to mount two engines side by side, they needed to keep sails.

Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.

It's clear that petrol-driven engines have no future.

Now, however, recent developments in electric vehicle technology mean they can match conventional petrol engines in terms of performance and safety

He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the perfect search engine will understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.

Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.

Google's core business is search and find, so obviously what helps improve Google's search engine is good for Google," he says.

make full use of the power of its search engine

Lending is the coal to our engine, so we want to make more loans.

The partnership benefits both sides by allowing unconventional partners for example, two companies from two different industries to work together on a specific aspect of the value chain, like, in this example, an engine firm with an accessory one.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.

实用场景例句

a twin-engined speedboat: 双引擎快艇

I switched/turned the engine off.: 我关掉了发动机。

a diesel/petrol engine: 柴油 / 汽油发动机

My car had to have a new engine.: 我的汽车得换一个新发动机。

engine trouble: 发动机故障

...an engine failure that forced a jetliner to crash-land in a field.: 迫使喷气式客机在田地里紧急降落的引擎故障

In 1941, the train would have been pulled by a steam engine.: 1941年，火车本可以由蒸汽机车拉动。

He got into the driving seat and started the engine.: 他坐进驾驶座，发动引擎。

What do you like to do in your spare time?: 空闲时你喜欢干什么?

The car's got some sort of engine trouble again.: 车子的引擎又出了什么故障.

Check the engine oil level regularly.: 要时常检查机油量.

My car's off the road at the moment while I recondition the engine.: 我是把车停在路边修理引擎的.

We had hardly started from home when the engine gave out.: 我们刚刚离开家,发动机就失灵了.

First, you turn the engine on so.: 首先, 你这样开动引擎.

They use a piston engine instead.: 他们改用活塞发动机.

This fine engine makes only a whisper when running at full speed.: 这部优良的发动机全速开动时也只发出一点点沙沙声.

A steam engine transforms heat into power.: 蒸汽机将热能转变成动力.

How is the new engine behaving?: 新的引擎运行得如何 ?

The engine puts out thirty horsepower.: 这台发动机可产生30马力.

The engine has frozen up.: 发动机冻住了.

an electrical fault in the engine: 发动机的电路故障

Who invented the steam engine?: 谁发明了蒸汽机？

The crash happened seconds after the pilot reported engine trouble.: 飞行员报告发动机有故障后几秒钟飞机就坠毁了。

Flames spewed from the aircraft's engine.: 飞机发动机喷出火焰。

Then suddenly, the engine coughed, spluttered and died.: 然后，发动机突然咔咔地响着，发出一阵噼啪声，接着就彻底熄火了。

Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car.: 阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。

The boat's engine misfired after he tried to start it up.: 他试着启动船的引擎，但没发动起来。

The plane hit so hard that one engine was buried 16 feet underground.: 飞机猛烈撞击地面，致使一个引擎陷到了地下16英尺处。

Some objects had got entangled with the underneath mechanism of the engine.: 一些东西缠在了发动机下面的机件上。

Its engine is coupled to a semiautomatic gearbox.: 它的发动机与一个半自动变速箱相连接。

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