[生] function，enginery ；

[例句] 这种搅拌机能搅拌出稀薄、柔滑、质地均匀的面糊。 This kind of mixer produces light, silky, even-textured batters.

[例句] 该直升机能以每小时150公里左右的速度疾进。 The helicopter can zip along at about 150 kilometres an hour.

steam turbine，turbine ；

[例句] 这些汽轮机可大致分为两种基本类型, 即冲动式和反动式. These turbines can be broadly split into two basic types, the impulse and the reaction turbines.

[例句] 蒸汽经过输送管进入汽轮机,汽轮机再带动发电机. The steam is carried through pipes to steam turbines which drive the electric generators.

robot，android，automaton，[电影]Endhiran；

[例句] 大多数移动机器人仍处在设计阶段。 Most mobile robots are still in the design stage.

[例句] 这些机器人过去一年都在试用当中。 The robots have been on trial for the past year.

crude oil engine，diesel engine，oil engine ；

[例句] 我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵. We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.

[例句] 用作柴油机的燃料可以分两大类. Fuels for diesel engines may be considered under two broad headings.

[机] engine，motor ；

[例句] 卡车倒车和掉头的时候，我听见发动机的轰鸣声。 I heard the engines revving as the lorries backed and turned.

[例句] 阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。 Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car.

institution，organization，mechanism，outfit；

[例句] 这些大机构总是随意制定规定，而且说变就变。 These large institutions make — and change—the rules to suit themselves.

[例句] 该国的经济困境阻碍了其科研机构的工作进展。 The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions.

handpiece，nose，nosing ；

[例句] 他拉起机头,平稳地降落下来. He brought the aircraft's nose up and made a perfect landing.

[例句] 他仓促地叫了一声, 便扳开几支大口径短抢的机头, 作好防守准备. With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive.

chance，opportunity；

[例句] 好运就是当机会来临时，你早已做好了准备。 Good luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

[例句] 机会已经失去。他苦苦思索别的方案。 The opportunity had gone. His mind scrabbled for alternatives.

transmitter，sender，sending set，X-mitter ；

[例句] 他们测试了这台发射机的发射范围. They tested the range of this transmitter.

[例句] 只要在发射机中存在调制信号, 就含有旁频带出现. When there is a modulated signal from transmitter, there are side bands.

mechanism，gear，machine-operated，office，department ；

[例句] 大量此类信息在警察机关其他部门中流传。 A lot of this information flowed through other police departments.

[例句] 上个月他从陆军情报机关开小差跑了。 He deserted from army intelligence last month.

radio，radio set，receiver，receiving set，radiogram ；

[例句] 我用短波收音机收听最新的战事新闻。 I use the short-wave radio to get the latest war news.

[例句] 他把收音机的音量开得很大，好让自己不再想这件事。 He put the radio on loud to stop himself thinking about it.

[机] (drilling) rig，drilling machine，borer，drill ；

[例句] 这钻机有变速控制。 The drill has variable speed control.

[例句] 他发明了新的钻机之后, 许多荣耀都加在他的身上了. After he invented the new drilling machine, honors were thrust upon him.

engine room，passenger compartment，cabin，machinery space ；

[例句] 发动机舱里的水由一条软管抽走。 Water in the engine compartment is sucked away by a hose.

[例句] 机舱人员一直在为M1空难调查作证。 Cabin crew have been giving evidence at the M1 aircrash enquiry.

secret，classified，confidential，privacy ；

[例句] 这一聚合物的性质目前是个商业机密。 The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.

[例句] 她从未参与过为任何人获取或复制机密文件之事。 She never participated in obtaining or copying any classified documents for anyone.

earphone，headphone，ear cup，headset；

[例句] 让受试者通过耳机听“白噪声”。 "White noise" was played into the subject's ears through headphones.

[例句] 戴耳机的接线员正坐在总机室里. An operator wearing earphone was sitting in the telephone exchange.

[机] main engine，master，[军] lead plane，leader，host computer ；

[例句] 大多数公司都一味模仿IBM公司大型主机的设计。 Most have slavishly copied the design of IBM'sbig mainframe machines.

[例句] Digital公司新产品的定价比同类主机的一半还要低。 Digital priced the new line at less than half the cost of comparable mainframes.

[书] （好的境遇； 机会） favourable circumstances，opportunity，chance，accident，good luck ；

[例句] 事业发展的机遇 opportunities for career progression

[例句] 这些发展是文坛的机遇. This development serves as an opportunity for the literati here.

[机] booster，air-compressor，compressor，compressor machine ；

[例句] 压气机出口压力沿圆周方向接近于常数. The compressor - outlet pressure is nearly constant around the circumference.

[例句] 文中也包括了离心压气机设计的基本步骤. The essential design procedure about centrifugal compressor also included in the paper.

（机器制造或加工） machine-processed，machine-made，mechanism ；

[例句] 英国雇佣法包括解决劳资纠纷的仲裁和调解机制。 UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.

[例句] 公司间的竞争过于激烈，自我调节机制已无法发挥作用。 Competition between companies is too fierce for self-regulation to work.

magneto，magnetor ；

[例句] 采用大功率磁电机,输出能量大,整车供电充足. High power magneto guarantees the power supply to the vehicle.

[例句] 交流励磁 电机和交交变频器是交流励磁电机系统中最主要的两个谐波源. AC excited generator ( ACEG ) and cyclo converter are principal harmonic sources in ACEG systems.