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retrofit v.(飞机等）式样翻新；改进n.翻新；改进 (1) 由于采用模块式结构，美国尼伯科电动和气动执行机构系统可以灵活应用在新阀门或改进阀门上。 You can use retrofit as a verb, or it can be a noun meaning the new part itself, or something that's added on later. The solar panels on your two hundred year old house are a retrofit, and so is the fancy new stereo in your beat up old car. Retrofit has been around since the mid-1950s, when retroactive and refit were combined into a new word.

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英 ['retrəʊfɪt] 美 ['retroʊfɪt] (1) Engineered with a modular approach, NIBCO's electric and pneumatic actuation systems give you flexibility to actuate new valves or retrofit existing valves. When you retrofit something, you replace old parts with new ones. You might retrofit an antique car with updated brakes and seat belts, for example. 1[VERB 动词]对（机器）更新部件；对（建筑物）进行翻新 To retrofit a machine or a building means to put new parts or new equipment in it after it has been in use for some time, especially to improve its safety or make it work better.   [V n]Much of this business involves retrofitting existing planes...这项业务主要是改造更新现有的飞机。Damaged houses have been repaired, roads repaved and buildings retrofitted.受损的房子已经修好，公路重铺了，大楼也翻新了。Retrofit is also a noun.A retrofit may involve putting in new door jambs...房子翻新可能需要安装新的门框。The retrofit program will be carried out at the Montreal facilities.蒙特利尔将要开展市政设施的翻新改良工程。

英语单词	retrofit
英美音标	英 ['retrəʊfɪt] 美 ['retroʊfɪt]
中文释义	v.(飞机等）式样翻新；改进 n.翻新；改进
英语例句	(1) Engineered with a modular approach, NIBCO's electric and pneumatic actuation systems give you flexibility to actuate new valves or retrofit existing valves.
中文例句	(1) 由于采用模块式结构，美国尼伯科电动和气动执行机构系统可以灵活应用在新阀门或改进阀门上。
vocabulary简明	When you retrofit something, you replace old parts with new ones. You might retrofit an antique car with updated brakes and seat belts, for example.
vocabulary扩展	You can use retrofit as a verb, or it can be a noun meaning the new part itself, or something that's added on later. The solar panels on your two hundred year old house are a retrofit, and so is the fancy new stereo in your beat up old car. Retrofit has been around since the mid-1950s, when retroactive and refit were combined into a new word.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]对（机器）更新部件；对（建筑物）进行翻新 To retrofit a machine or a building means to put new parts or new equipment in it after it has been in use for some time, especially to improve its safety or make it work better. [V n] Much of this business involves retrofitting existing planes... 这项业务主要是改造更新现有的飞机。 Damaged houses have been repaired, roads repaved and buildings retrofitted. 受损的房子已经修好，公路重铺了，大楼也翻新了。 Retrofit is also a noun. A retrofit may involve putting in new door jambs... 房子翻新可能需要安装新的门框。 The retrofit program will be carried out at the Montreal facilities. 蒙特利尔将要开展市政设施的翻新改良工程。

Retrofit Existing Parts 英 Retrəʊfɪt] 美 Retroʊfɪt V.(飞机等）式样翻新；改进 N.翻新；改进