engine
英 ['endʒɪn]
美['ɛndʒɪn]
- n. 引擎，发动机；机车，火车头；工具
词态变化
复数: engines;
助记提示
1. 音译“引擎”。
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。
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
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.
同义词辨析
engine, locomotive
这两个名词都可表示"机车，火车头"之意。
engine与locomotive都可作"机车，火车头"解，其区别在于所使用的地区不同。engine是英国英语，而locomotive为美国英语。
machine, machinery, mechanism, apparatus, engine, motor
这些名词均有"机器，装置"之意。
machine： 普通用词，泛指一切机器。
machinery： 指机器的总称。
mechanism： 指运行系统，简单的机械装置。
apparatus： 指具有特殊用途的装置。
engine： 既可泛指或大或小、简单或复杂的机械、机器，又可指产生动力的发动机或引擎。
motor： 通常指小型或轻型马达、发动机。
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.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
- Until ships became large enough (and engines small enough) to mount two engines side by side, they needed to keep sails.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
- 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.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
- It's clear that petrol-driven engines have no future.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
- Now, however, recent developments in electric vehicle technology mean they can match conventional petrol engines in terms of performance and safety
出自-2013年6月听力原文
- 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.
2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
- 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.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
- 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.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- Google's core business is search and find, so obviously what helps improve Google's search engine is good for Google," he says.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
- make full use of the power of its search engine
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
- Lending is the coal to our engine, so we want to make more loans.
2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C
- 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.
2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
- 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.
出自-2011年考研阅读原文
- Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.
2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- a twin-engined speedboat
- 双引擎快艇
牛津词典
- I switched/turned the engine off.
- 我关掉了发动机。
牛津词典
- a diesel/petrol engine
- 柴油 / 汽油发动机
牛津词典
- My car had to have a new engine.
- 我的汽车得换一个新发动机。
牛津词典
- engine trouble
- 发动机故障
牛津词典
- ...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
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He got into the driving seat and started the engine.
- 他坐进驾驶座，发动引擎。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- What do you like to do in your spare time?
- 空闲时你喜欢干什么?
辞典例句
- The car's got some sort of engine trouble again.
- 车子的引擎又出了什么故障.
《简明英汉词典》
- Check the engine oil level regularly.
- 要时常检查机油量.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- First, you turn the engine on so.
- 首先, 你这样开动引擎.
《简明英汉词典》
- They use a piston engine instead.
- 他们改用活塞发动机.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- A steam engine transforms heat into power.
- 蒸汽机将热能转变成动力.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- How is the new engine behaving?
- 新的引擎运行得 如何 ?
《简明英汉词典》
- The engine puts out thirty horsepower.
- 这台发动机可产生30马力.
《简明英汉词典》
- The engine has frozen up.
- 发动机冻住了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- an electrical fault in the engine
- 发动机的电路故障
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- Who invented the steam engine?
- 谁发明了蒸汽机？
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- 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。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- Flames spewed from the aircraft's engine.
- 飞机发动机喷出火焰。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car.
- 阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句