turbine
英 ['tɜːbaɪn; -ɪn]
美 ['tɝbaɪn]
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1、涡轮发动机，涡扇发动机、涡喷发动机。
2、turbin- + -e.
3. 音译“透平机”。
turbine 汽轮机，涡轮机来自法语 turbine,汽轮机，涡轮机，来自拉丁语 turbinis,旋转的，来自 turbo,旋转，旋顶，回 旋，来自 PIE*stwer,旋转，转动，词源同 stir,storm.
- turbine
- turbine: [19] Latin turbō denoted ‘whirl’, ‘whirling thing’, or ‘whirlwind’, and also ‘spinning-top’ (it was related to turba ‘disturbance, crowd’, source of English disturb, trouble, etc). From it around 1824 was coined French turbine, applied originally to a revolving wheel on an axis, driven by water-pressure. It was borrowed into English in the early 1840s.
=> disturb, trouble - turbine (n.)
- 1838, from French turbine (19c.), from Latin turbinem (nominative turbo) "spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls," related to turba "turmoil, crowd" (see turbid). Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water. Turbo in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904.
- 1. Damage to the turbine slowed the work down.
- 涡轮机的损坏降低了工作的效率。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The spinning turbine creates a vacuum.
- 旋转的涡轮形成了一块真空区域。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps.
- 这项工作包括快速建起堤坝和安装涡轮水泵.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The gas turbine feeds on the fuel it pumps.
- 这台燃气轮机以它抽入的燃料为能源.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 5. A disadvantage of the turbine is that it is not reversible.
- 涡轮机的一个缺点就是它不可以反转。
来自辞典例句
