engineer
engineer 英 [ˌendʒɪˈnɪə(r)] 美 [ˌendʒɪˈnɪr]
n. 工程师 v. 设计；建造
进行时:engineering 过去式:engineered 过去分词:engineered 第三人称单数:engineers 名词复数:engineers
- An engineer is someone who possesses the knowledge or expertise to create and implement plans or build machines. Even if you're not an engineer, when you engineer you make plans and solve problems.
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- n. 工程师
- v. 设计；建造
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1. They're sending an engineer to fix the phone.
他们会派一名技师来安装电话。
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2. a flight engineer
空勤机械师
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3. the chief engineer on a cruise liner
游轮的轮机长
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4. The car is beautifully engineered and a pleasure to drive.
这辆汽车设计完美，工艺精良，开起来过瘾。
- engineer (n.) mid-14c., enginour, "constructor of military engines," from Old French engigneor "engineer, architect, maker of war-engines; schemer" (12c.), from Late Latin ingeniare (see engine); general sense of "inventor, designer" is recorded from early 15c.; civil sense, in reference to public works, is recorded from c. 1600 but not the common meaning of the word until 19c (hence lingering distinction as civil engineer). Meaning "locomotive driver" is first attested 1832, American English. A "maker of engines" in ancient Greece was a mekhanopoios.
- engineer (v.) 1818, "act as an engineer," from engineer (n.). Figurative sense of "arrange, contrive, guide or manage (via ingenuity or tact)" is attested from 1864, originally in a political context. Related: Engineered. Middle English had a verb engine "contrive, construct" (late 14c.), also "seduce, trick, deceive" (c. 1300) and "put to torture."
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