英语单词 | gadget |
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英美音标 | 英 ['ɡædʒɪt] 美 ['ɡædʒɪt] |
中文释义 | n.小机件;小玩意儿;小巧的机械 |
英语例句 | (1) This gadget can perform many different functions. (2) The gadget will lighten the goods you burden. (3) The gadget is simply marvelous! |
中文例句 | (1) 这种机器具有多种功能。 (2) 这个装置会减轻你背负货物的重量。 (3) 这玩意儿简直好极了! |
vocabulary简明 | A gadget is a tool or device, especially one that works remarkably well for a specific task. Your dad's favorite kitchen gadget might be his special knife that cuts vegetables into spirals. |
vocabulary扩展 | The remote control your brother rigs up to the Christmas tree is a gadget, and your camping tool that folds out into various knives, corkscrews, and scissors is another kind of gadget. The original spelling was gadjet, and it's thought to have originated in the 1850's as sailors' slang, meaning any mechanism or ship part that either lacked a name or whose name had been forgotten. It may be rooted in the French gâchette, "piece of a mechanism." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]小器具;精巧的小玩意 A gadget is a small machine or device which does something useful. You sometimes refer to something as a gadget when you are suggesting that it is complicated and unnecessary. [usu with supp]
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