- N-COUNT 机器;机械
A machine is a piece of equipment which uses electricity or an engine in order to do a particular kind of work.- I put the coin in the machine and pulled the lever...
我把硬币投入机器，拉动控制杆。 - The machine can be remotely operated and monitored.
这台机器可以远程操作和监控。 - ...a color photograph of the sort taken by machine to be pasted in passports.
那种由机器拍摄的护照用彩色照片
- I put the coin in the machine and pulled the lever...
- VERB 用机器制造;用机器加工
If you machine something, you make it or work on it using a machine.- The material is machined in a factory...
这种材料在一家工厂里用机器加工成型。 - All parts are machined from top grade, high tensile aluminium.
所有零件都是用顶级高强度铝加工而成。 - ...machined brass zinc alloy gears.
机器加工成型的铜锌合金齿轮
- The material is machined in a factory...
- N-COUNT 大型机构;严密组织
You can use machine to refer to a large and well-controlled system or organization.- ...Nazi Germany's military machine...
纳粹德国的军事机构 - He has put the party publicity machine behind another candidate.
他为另一位参选者在幕后组织政党宣传。
- ...Nazi Germany's military machine...
- N-COUNT （由于工作过于劳累或乏味）机械般工作的人，做工作不动脑筋的人
If you say that someone is a machine, you mean that they are so tired or bored that they do their work without thinking.- I think I have got to stop or I might turn into a machine...
我想我得停下来了，否则我就会变成一台机器。 - He has dedicated himself to his work and become just a writing machine.
他忘我地投入工作，就像是一台写作机器。
- I think I have got to stop or I might turn into a machine...
- See also: fruit machine sewing machine slot machine vending machine
- The rooms are crammed with humming Xerox machines.
那些房间里摆满了嗡嗡作响的复印机。 - Tenants do not have to worry about leaking roofs and broken washing machines
租房者无需担心屋顶漏水和洗衣机出故障。 - The machines were coded so we could tell them apart.
机器都编了号，便于我们区分。 - This, coupled with the fact that flying machines remained universally a subject for jeers and derision, made the brothers secretive.
这一点，加上飞行器仍是人们普遍嘲笑和讥讽的对象，使得兄弟俩只能暗地里行事。 - These machines are constantly updated by improving the design of the computers.
通过改善计算机的设计，这些机器不断得到更新。 - Most shredding machines are based on a revolving disc fitted with replaceable blades.
大多数粉碎机都是基于一个装有可替换刀片的旋转圆盘来实现作业的。 - Many of the machines are gathering dust in basements
许多机器尘封在地下室里。 - All machines give out eventually
最终，所有的机器都停止了运转。 - The grind of heavy machines could get on their nerves.
重型机器发出的刺耳的摩擦声会让他们心烦意乱。 - I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.
我提出了当时被认为是旁门左道的建议，说设计新机器可能更省钱。 - A technician loads a video tape into one of the machines
一名技师把一盒录影带装进其中一台机器。 - One day these are multi-million dollar war machines and the next they are museum pieces.
终有一天，今天这些还是价值不菲的战争武器，明天它们就会进入历史的博物馆。 - The number of fax machines operating around the world has now reached ten million.
现在全球使用的传真机数量已达到了1,000万台。 - Machines now exist to pack olives in jars.
现在可用机器将橄榄装进罐子里。 - Older machines will need a software patch to be loaded to correct the date.
老些的机器需要下载软件补丁来修改日期。 - Each time the product changes, the machines have to be retooled.
每次更换产品，就得重新装备机器。 - Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.
施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂以弄清楚他们如何能生产出如此了不起的产品。 - The latest machines scramble the messages so that the conversation cannot easily be intercepted.
最新的机器对信号作扰频处理，通话就不易被侦听了。 - The airline had been screening baggage on X-ray machines.
该航空公司已采用X光机对行李进行安全检查。 - Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.
他们力图重整政坛、摧毁现有的政党机器，却以失败收场。 - Given the sophistication of modern machines, there is little that cannot be successfully washed at home.
鉴于现代机器的先进程度，几乎没有什么东西是在家里洗不了的。 - In the future the machines will need spare parts and maintenance.
这些机器将来会需要备件和维修保养。 - These are the first machines that can stand the wear and tear of continuously crushing glass
这些就是第一批能经受住不停碾碎玻璃所造成的磨损的机器。 - We're not talking a murder here; we're talking poker machines or gambling — things that are misdemeanors in most states
我们现在讨论的不是谋杀，而是扑克机或赌博——这些在多数州只能算轻罪了。 - The machines start to wear down, they don't make as many nuts and bolts as they used to
机器开始出现磨损，螺母和螺钉的产量不如从前了。 - It's too stupid for words not having the machines switched on when they're most needed
最需要这些机器时却不打开，真是愚蠢至极。 - He rode a shipment of machines in the truck on his return trip.
他开车回来时搭运了一批机器。 - These machines work on the same principle.
这些机器按照相同的原理运转。 - She minds two machines all by herself.
她一个人看两台机器。