| 英语单词 | pneumatic |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [njuː'mætɪk] 美 [nuːmætɪk] |
| 中文释义 | adj.气动的;充气的;<宗> 灵魂的,精神的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Pneumatic signals will travel only at sonic speeds. (2) When were pneumatic tyres invented? |
| 中文例句 | (1) 气动信号的传输速度仅仅相当于音速。 (2) 充气轮胎是什么时间发明的? |
| vocabulary简明 | Pneumatic means "related to air or gas." If you've ever gone to a drive-through bank where you put your deposit in a container that gets shot through a tube into the bank, by a blast of air, then you've used a pneumatic tube. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When you pronounce pneumatic, keep the "p" silent. It comes from the Latin root for breath, and in some cases people call spiritual things "pneumatic." In engineering, when something is described as pneumatic, it usually uses air pressure to move things around, like pneumatic tubes, or like the compressor in the whipped cream that pushes air into the liquid cream as it comes out of the can. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]压缩空气推动(操作)的;风动的;气动的 A pneumatic drill is operated by air under pressure and is very powerful. Pneumatic drills are often used for digging up roads. [ADJ n]
2 [ADJ 形容词]充气的 Pneumatic means filled with air. [ADJ n]
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