| 英语单词 | automate |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['ɔːtəmeɪt] 美 ['ɔːtəmeɪt] |
| 中文释义 | v.使自动化 |
| 英语例句 | (1) This part of the assembly process is now fully automated. (2) Many banks have begun to automate. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 装配过程的这一部分现在是全自动的。 (2) 许多银行已开始采用自动化技术。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When you design a machine to complete a process once done by a human, you automate the process. Standardized tests once had to be graded by hand, now they're automated, i.e. done by computers. |
| vocabulary扩展 | If you automate a factory, workers might lose jobs to robots and machines. A century ago, if you did laundry, you had to turn the clothes in the drum by hand. It was really hard work, so hard that in many families one day was set aside as laundry day and everyone had to help. In 1937, the first electric, or automated, washer was sold, with a motor that turned the drum. Since then, the job has become much easier, though most of us still find it a chore. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]使自动化 To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people. [V n]
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