engine
engine 英 [ˈendʒɪn] 美 [ˈɛndʒɪn]
n. 引擎，发动机；机车，火车头；
名词复数:engines
- An engine is a machine that burns fuel to make something move. The engine in a car is the motor that makes it go.
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- n. 引擎，发动机；机车，火车头；
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1. Press this button to start the engine.
要开动发动机就按这个按钮。
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2. My car had to have a new engine.
我的汽车得换一个新发动机。
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3. engine trouble
发动机故障
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4. I turned the engine off. I switched the engine off.
我关掉了发动机
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5. a twin-engined speedboat
双引擎快艇
- 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 "innate qualities, ability; inborn character," in Late Latin "a war engine, battering ram" (Tertullian, Isidore of Seville); literally "that which is inborn," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + gignere, from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, suffixed form of root *gene- "give birth, beget."
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