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小词详解 | apparatus
Pedestrians in Manhattan can catch a glimpse of apparatus that looks like a video camera on a stand, but jerks around and has a strange, hornlike protrusion where the lens should be.
在曼哈顿,行人会瞥见摄像头般的装置立在支架上,不但会猛然转动,而且在本应是镜头的位置有奇怪的角状突出。
——《经济学人》By the end of a long night Tuesday, there was a collective exhaling in the Trump administration’s national security apparatus, and officials indicated that they believed things had been contained, for now.
周二,在漫长的一晚结束后,特朗普政府国家安全机构都长出了一口气,官员们表示,他们认为事情暂时得到了控制。
[名词] 特殊活动或目的所需的技术设备或机械
The pressing of the linseed pulp to extract the oil is done by a vast ramshackle apparatus of beams and ropes and pulleys which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camels and their stone wheels.
榨油工序是由一套摇摇欲坠的机械装置来完成的。该装置由大梁、缆索和滑轮组合而成,犹如一座高塔耸立在屋中,上端直与拱形屋顶相接。相形之下,油坊里的骆驼和石磙便显得矮小起来。
呼吸器官
the respiratory apparatus/organs
压制性国家机器
the repressive state apparatus间谍组织
the spy apparatus
It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of development. 这是一间圆厅,灯光惨暗,容积颇大,时而喧嚣四起,时而寂静无声,一整套处理刑事案件的机器,正带着庸俗、愁惨的隆重气派,在群众中间活动。
出自法国作家维克多·雨果的长篇小说《悲惨世界》(Les Misérables,原意为“悲惨的人们”“可怜的人们”)。该小说是19世纪最著名的小说之一,故事的主线围绕主人公土伦苦刑犯冉·阿让(Jean Valjean)的个人经历,融进了法国的历史、革命、战争、道德哲学、法律、正义、宗教信仰等,多次被改编演绎成影视作品。
gear: equipment that is used for a particular purpose rig: an apparatus, device, or piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose tackle: a mechanism consisting of ropes, pulley blocks, hooks, or other things for lifting heavy objects