turbine

英 ['tɜːbaɪn; -ɪn] 美['tɝbaɪn]
  • n. [动力] 涡轮;[动力] 涡轮机

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中文词源


turbine 汽轮机,涡轮机

来自法语 turbine,汽轮机,涡轮机,来自拉丁语 turbinis,旋转的,来自 turbo,旋转,旋顶,回 旋,来自 PIE*stwer,旋转,转动,词源同 stir,storm.

词态变化


复数: turbines;

助记提示


1、涡轮发动机,涡扇发动机、涡喷发动机。
2、turbin- + -e.
3. 音译“透平机”。

双语例句


1. Damage to the turbine slowed the work down.
涡轮机的损坏降低了工作的效率。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The spinning turbine creates a vacuum.
旋转的涡轮形成了一块真空区域。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps.
这项工作包括快速建起堤坝和安装涡轮水泵.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The gas turbine feeds on the fuel it pumps.
这台燃气轮机以它抽入的燃料为能源.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. A disadvantage of the turbine is that it is not reversible.
涡轮机的一个缺点就是它不可以反转。

来自辞典例句

英文词源


turbine
turbine: [19] Latin turbō denoted ‘whirl’, ‘whirling thing’, or ‘whirlwind’, and also ‘spinning-top’ (it was related to turba ‘disturbance, crowd’, source of English disturb, trouble, etc). From it around 1824 was coined French turbine, applied originally to a revolving wheel on an axis, driven by water-pressure. It was borrowed into English in the early 1840s.
=> disturb, trouble
turbine (n.)
1838, from French turbine (19c.), from Latin turbinem (nominative turbo) "spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls," related to turba "turmoil, crowd" (see turbid). Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water. Turbo in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904.