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automation n.自动化 (1) 自动化使很多非技术工人受到淘汰。(2) 在工业自动化方面，情况也一样。 Car companies were the first manufacturers to use assembly lines, where the steps of building a car were divided among workers––and when those jobs started to be done more often by machines then by people, an executive at Ford coined the term automation to describe what was happening.

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英 [ˌɔːtə'meɪʃn] 美 [ˌɔːtə'meɪʃn] (1) Automation has obsoleted many unskilled workers.(2) So is the case with industrial automation. Automation means making something automatic, or mechanized. If there's smoke in your house and your smoke detector is set up to "call" the fire department, that's an example of automation.

英语单词	automation
英美音标	英 [ˌɔːtə'meɪʃn] 美 [ˌɔːtə'meɪʃn]
中文释义	n.自动化
英语例句	(1) Automation has obsoleted many unskilled workers. (2) So is the case with industrial automation.
中文例句	(1) 自动化使很多非技术工人受到淘汰。 (2) 在工业自动化方面，情况也一样。
vocabulary简明	Automation means making something automatic, or mechanized. If there's smoke in your house and your smoke detector is set up to "call" the fire department, that's an example of automation.
vocabulary扩展	Car companies were the first manufacturers to use assembly lines, where the steps of building a car were divided among workers––and when those jobs started to be done more often by machines then by people, an executive at Ford coined the term automation to describe what was happening.

Automation Smoke Car 英 ˌɔːtə'Meɪʃn] 美 ˌɔːtə'Meɪʃn N.自动化 Obsoleted