machine

• n. 机械，机器；机构；机械般工作的人
• vt. 用机器制造
• n. (Machine)人名；(意)马基内

来自拉丁语machina,机器，引擎，装置，设施，诡计，来自PIE*magh,使能够，赋予力量，词源同might,magic,mechanic.

1. any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

2. an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently;

"the war machine"

3. an efficient person;

"the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine"

4. 4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;

"he needs a car to get to work"

5. a group that controls the activities of a political party;

"he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"

6. a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point

machine

machine: [16] The ultimate source of both machine and mechanic [14] was makhos, a Greek word meaning ‘contrivance, means’, and related distantly to English may ‘be able’ and might. From it was derived mēkhané, whose Doric dialect form mākhaná passed into Latin as māchina ‘engine, contrivance’. English acquired the word via Old French machine. Meanwhile mēkhané had spawned an adjectival derivative mēkhanikós, which was in due course to find its way into English through Latin mēchanicus.
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machine (n.)

1540s, "structure of any kind," from Middle French machine "device, contrivance," from Latin machina "machine, engine, military machine; device, trick; instrument" (source also of Spanish maquina, Italian macchina), from Greek makhana, Doric variant of mekhane "device, means," related to mekhos "means, expedient, contrivance," from PIE *maghana- "that which enables," from root *magh- (1) "to be able, have power" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic mogo "be able," Old English mæg "I can;" see may (v.)).

Main modern sense of "device made of moving parts for applying mechanical power" (1670s) probably grew out of mid-17c. senses of "apparatus, appliance" and "military siege-tower." In late 19c. slang the word was used for both "penis" and "vagina," one of the few so honored. Political sense is U.S. slang, first recorded 1876. Machine age is attested by 1851:

The idea of remodelling society at public meetings is one of the least reasonable which ever entered the mind of an agitator: and the notion that the relations of the sexes can be re-arranged and finally disposed of by preamble and resolution, is one of the latest, as it should have been the last, vagary of a machine age. ["The Literary World," Nov. 1, 1851]

Machine for living (in) "house" translates Le Corbusier's machine à habiter (1923).

machine (v.)

mid-15c., "decide, resolve," from Old French and Latin usages (see machine (n.)). Related: Machined; machining. Meaning "to make or form on a machine" is from 1878. Related: Machined; machining.

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。

Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines, if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

In addition, parents and teachers can help children by providing explicit instruction regarding the mind as a learning machine.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Bedrooms and cars are the most obvious examples, but you can also rent camping spaces in Sweden, fields in Australia and washing machines in France

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The video machine has to be checked.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

It turns out that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he's turning out newspapers with shocking headlines.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

In fact, 80% of Spain's machine tools are from the Basque Country.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Teaching ethics to a machine even more intelligent than we are will be the bigger challenge.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

They are already on California roads, so it is not too soon to ask whether we can program a machine to act ethically.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

A bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swimwear.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

A machine can read millions of essay within minutes.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

As the databases grew, machine accuracy dipped across the board.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

If I'm right, we should foster a creative spirit because a dose of illogical creativity will complement the rationality of the machine.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional Mri machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Let's hope they' re wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine truthfulness at the flip of a switch.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Machine learning is now capable of far, far more complex tasks.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike—either doppelgangers, whom the machine would have trouble identifying as two separate people, or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different ligh

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly, airbus has a futuristic modular concept involving a passenger capsule that can be detached from the road- going chassis and picked up by a helicopter-type machine

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

So we must aim to complement the rationality of the machine, rather than to compete with it.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Some have 26 vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 27 undergone changes as they have come into contact with an 28 expanding machine civilization.

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The fundamental limitation of machine learning is that it needs to learn from large volumes of past data.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Buy it from a fare card machine in metro stations.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Even when the machines are recycled and the harmful metals removed, the recycling process often is carried out in poor countries, in practically uncontrolled ways which allow many poisonous substances to escape into the environment.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Farecard machine are in every station, bring small bills because there are no change machines in the station and farecard machine only provide up to $ 5 in change.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Help super intelligent machines work better.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Hollywood's theory that machines with evil minds will drive armies of killer robots is just silly.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to prevent themselves from being destroyed.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

My washing machine is being repaired this week, so I have to wash my clothes by hand.

2018年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

Others say we can just "switch them off" as if super intelligent machines are too stupid to think of that possibility.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Reaching over to my collection of CDs, I blindly took one out, put it in the machine and played it.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文

Recent development has made possible machines that print, cook, and serve foods on a mass scale.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Some argue that humans and machines can coexist as long as they work in teams—yet that is not possible unless machines share the goals of humans.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Some researchers argue that we can seal the machines inside a kind of firewall, using them to answer difficult questions.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

They are connected to change machines.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

This makes a fun activity for a children's party; they love feeding the fruit and frozen bananas into the top of the machine and watching the ice cream come out below.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

We have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

The computer is the 21st century's culture machine.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still stuck in download mode.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Destroying the machines that are coming for our jobs would be nuts.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew MeAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training.

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MTI's Center for Digital Business.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We are just in a situation where there are no good theories explaining what consciousnesss actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there.

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

We need to reframe race against the machine as race with the machine.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Machines have replaced human labour in many industries.

在许多行业中，机器已经替代了人力。

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to operate/run a machine

操作 / 开机器

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How does this machine work?

这部机器是如何工作的？

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a washing/sewing machine

洗衣 / 缝纫机

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a machine for making plastic toys

生产塑料玩具的机器

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I left a message on her answering machine.

我在她的电话答录机上留了言。

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The potatoes are planted by machine .

这些土豆是用机器种植的。

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Just put those clothes in the machine (= the washing machine) .

把那些衣服放到洗衣机里就行了。

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The new machines (= computers) will be shipped next month.

新机器下个月推向市场。

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the president's propaganda machine

总统的宣传班子

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This material can be cut and machined easily.

这种材料很容易用机器切割并加工成型。

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I put the coin in the machine and pulled the lever...

我把硬币投入机器，拉动控制杆。

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The machine can be remotely operated and monitored.

这台机器可以远程操作和监控。

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The material is machined in a factory...

这种材料在一家工厂里用机器加工成型。

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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。

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...Nazi Germany's military machine...

纳粹德国的军事机构

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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。

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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。

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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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They advised the peasants on how to use the machine.

他们指导农民如何使用这台机器.

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This old machine is shot.

这台机器已旧了.

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This washing machine was guaranteed from mechanical failure — I demand a new one!

这台洗衣机出售时曾担保过不出机械性故障——我要换一台新的.

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