engines是什么意思？

engines

• n. 发动机( engine的名词复数 )，引擎，火车头，火车机车；

例句

• Fire-engines turned out as soon as the fire broke out. 一起火,消防车立刻就赶到。
• One of the aircraft's engines packed up. 飞机的一个引擎坏了。
• I don’t have much know-how about engines. 发动机方面的技术知识我知之甚少。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines. 这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
• The plane was critically disabled when one of the engines caught fire. 有一台引擎起火,使飞机严重受损。
• One of the plane's engines went out. 飞机的一个发动机熄火了。
• We are having difficulty in firing up the ship's engines. 我们很难发动这艘轮船的引擎。
• Engineers are still trying to come up with a commercially viable replacement for internal-combustion engines. 工程师在设法制造一种在商业上切实可行的发动机来取代内燃机。
• The aircraft is powered by three jet engines. 这架飞机由三台喷气发动机驱动。
• A long train sometimes needs two engines. 长的列车有时需要两个机车。

英语四级真题

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
Until ships became large enough (and engines small enough) to mount two engines side by side, they needed to keep sails.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
It's clear that petrol-driven engines have no future.
出自-2013年6月听力原文

英语六级真题

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  引擎;发动机
  The engine of a car or other vehicle is the part that produces the power which makes the vehicle move.
  例句
  He got into the driving seat and started the engine. 他坐进驾驶座，发动引擎。 ...an engine failure that forced a jetliner to crash-land in a field. 迫使喷气式客机在田地里紧急降落的引擎故障
• N-COUNT
  机车；火车头
  An engine is also the large vehicle that pulls a railway train.
  例句
  In 1941, the train would have been pulled by a steam engine. 1941年，火车本可以由蒸汽机车拉动。