contraption

contraption

1. Walking to work one morning last fall, I happened to notice an odd gray contraption fastened to a streetlight on Madison Avenue.

2000年秋天的一个早上，我出门上班，在麦迪逊大街上无意中注意到，街灯杆上挂了个奇怪的灰色玩意儿。

2. The life-meter that NASA came up with was a complicated, delicate (and expensive) contraption that would, upon landing, be sprinkled with a planet's soil and check for evidence of bacterial life.

NASA提供的生命探测器是一个相当复杂、精密（而且昂贵）的精巧装置，一旦着陆，就能从洒落其上的尘土中找寻细菌生命的蛛丝马迹。

3. The parts used to make this contraption are intuitive: metal plates, plastic to hold the batteries in place, margarine container for the base, but here’s the important part;

the circuit ingredients:部分使用，使这个contraption直观：金属板，塑料举行电池到位，人造黄油容器的基础，但这里的的重要组成部分;

4. contraption: A mechanical device;a gadget.

一种机械装置;

5. They are proposing that we harness the energies of the elements to sustain our living quarters by entrapping the renewable resources on-site, using some membrane-type of contraption!

他们为我们竭力打造的居室采用膜型结构，材料用可回收材料替代传统的环保建筑材料。

6. He inserted his own drinking-glass-and-plastic-bag contraption into the vent, and used the reassembled bed rail to push it along the vent toward Jason's room.

他插入了他自己的饮用杯子-和- 塑胶- 袋子的新发明物进入排气口之内, 而且使用了被重新召集的床铁路沿著对于杰生的房间排气口推动它。

7. He taught me how to hold the contraption, tucked under my chin.

他教我如何拿着这个巧妙的玩意儿，塞在颔下。

8. The second trick was when he disappeared from the stage after getting into a contraption and suddenly popped out from the middle of the stadium!

他的第二个戏法出现在他从舞台上消失后，当时他进入了一个经过设计的装置，然后突然间又出现在体育场的正中央！

9. But not to worry, a Laker Girl contraption keeps that hair out of his eyes.

但不必担心，一个湖人女郎帮他把头发束缚在视野之外。

10. But you know what? When you hear about somebody going up and figuring out some sort of contraption to get the the the bad stuff out of the air,

但是你知道吗？当你听到某个人正在努力要发明一种奇巧的装置来从空气中去除坏的物质，

11. But getting inside and seeing Big Ben, the sonorous main bell that gives its name to the whole contraption, isn't easy.

但要想进入大本钟内，去看一看给这座巧夺天工的建筑享誉全球的名字的那个响声洪亮的主钟，可不是件容易的事。

12. Do any of you fools know how to shut off this infernal contraption?

你们这些笨蛋知道怎么把这个垃?

13. You find this odd contraption lost in the brush near an extinguished campfire.

你发现一个单独的精巧装置扔在一堆熄灭的篝火旁边。

14. Fly! Not in a plane, chopper or some other contraption, just you and several thousand feet of open air!

去飞行，但不要借助飞机、升机或者其它什么新发明的飞行器，只有你和数千英尺的大气。

15. a peculiar contraption for removing pips from oranges

可以除去柑橘的子的稀奇玩意儿.

16. Yeh and Lee knew that wind would change their contraption's course after launch, so they went on a free Web site to try to calculate roughly where the balloon would go.

叶和李知道风会改变他们的玩意儿在发射后的课程，所以他们一到 免费网站 尝试计算大致如气球会去。

17. The grouting and pulling contraption technology and pulling of prestressed anchor in soil

土层预应力锚杆注浆与张拉施工技术

18. AMONG the many gadgets, instruments and artefacts in its care, London's Science Museum holds a peculiar contraption that most resembles the work of a deranged plumber.

在伦敦科学博物馆珍藏的诸多机械工具以及人工制品中有一种很像水管工杰作的特殊的精巧装置。

19. contraption n.

奇巧的设计;

20. If a Rigger you control would assemble a Contraption, it assembles two Contraptions instead.

如果一个由你操控的装配工将要装配一个机械，则改为装配两个机械。

21. What, this? This harmless little contraption?

就这个?这个无害的小东西?

22. Why turn the hose on them when you can reach for this contraption instead.

当你有了这个精巧的装置就不用再开启软管驱散它们了。

23. And when I saw that privit hedge kinda contraption unfold on the bus, well, i had to cover my eyes in embarrassment!What the eck was that lighting effect outlining the london Sky-line?

当我看到巴士顶层打开后的那些围栏，我真是脸红到都不忍心看了，那些灯光都整出些什么烂效果啊，那还是伦敦吗？

24. I love the color in this one. The maroon and browns of the shirts with the yellow daffodils. The helicopter becomes a misplaced contraption within the natural environment.

我喜欢这幅的颜色。栗色和褐色的T恤夹杂着黄色的水仙花。没有自然环境的映衬下，直升飞机将成为一个摆错地方的道具。

25. I don't understand how this contraption operates.

我弄不懂这怪玩意儿是怎么工作的。

26. Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves

拉尔夫正站在一个用棕榈枝叶搭起来的鹇玩意儿旁边。

27. A contraption of compensation method for the harmonics and reactive power is proposed in this paper.Using active power filter, the currents of the real time compensation are infused to the power net.

文章提出一种补偿谐波采用电力有源滤波器实时地向电网注入和无功电流的精巧设计，采用电力有源滤器实时地向电网注入补偿电流。

28. Thursday is "body wedge" class, which involves another exercise contraption, this one a large foam wedge from which I will push myself up in various hateful ways for an hour.

星期四是“楔身”课，是另外一种锻炼花样，我得花一个小时用一种难受的方式把自己推进一个大泡沫楔形器械中。

29. Eventually, Mark would have to pull back the entire bed-rail/alarm clock contraption in order to wind it up for another 24 hours of fun and games.

最后，马克将会必须向后地拉整个的床- 铁路/ 闹钟新发明物在次序为另一个 24 小时的乐趣和比赛向上转动它。

30. pneumatic contraption for oil baffles

油挡供气装置

31. Description: GMT contraption for increasing the potential power of the Transpositor.

用于增强置换机潜在能量的GMT精巧装置。

32. It is not surprising that this contraption serves itself more reliably than it does ordinary Brazilians.

由此，说它是自己忠实的奴仆也就不足为奇了。

33. a Heath Robinson contraption

稀奇古怪而不实用的玩意儿.

34. After 13 years of tinkering， the inventor from Iowa introduced a 10-foot-long contraption that sliced and stuffed loaves of bread into wax paper wrapping.

经过了13年的修修补补，这位来自爱荷华州的发明家终于制成了一种10英尺长的精巧装置。这种装置能够将成条的面包切成片并装进蜡纸包装袋里。

35. After 13 years of tinkering, the inventor from Iowa introduced a 10-foot-long contraption that sliced and stuffed loaves of bread into wax paper wrapping. The world changed.

经过了13年的修修补补，这位来自爱荷华州的发明家终于制成了一种10英尺长的精巧装置。这种装置能够将成条的面包切成片并装进蜡纸包装袋里。世界从此发生了改变。

36. The list of artifact types, updated through the Shadowmoor set, is as follows: Contraption, Equipment, Fortification.

若神器地的类别栏上面印制了副类别，则这些副类别均为地类别。

37. The steam engine is an unthinkable contraption without the domesticating loop of the revolving governor.

要是没有那个安安分分转动着的调控器所构成的主控回路，蒸汽机根本就是不可想象的装置。

38. It was a noisy contraption unlike the modern machines you see these days devouring the golden armies of grain in wide gulps.

这一套东西噪音很大，与我们现在所看到的能狼吞虎咽地收割庄稼的现代机械可是没法比。

39. Does this contraption work?

这个奇妙的玩意儿能用吗?

40. This contraption is part of the platform! There's no way under the moon I can dismantle it!

这个奇妙装置是平台的一部分！我不可能在月光下拆解它！

41. This is an incredible contraption that had a bore of more than a yard, and through a rock weighing a thousand pounds.

这是一个难以置信的装置，炮镗就超过一码，石弹的重量就超过一千磅。

42. The supersonic contraption disintegrates common tap water into mist,

这是用超音波把平常的自来水分解成雾状，

43. This USB drive sits inside a watch which means that you can slink into your office with this handy contraption right under the nose of the nosey security guards.

这款USB驱动器是被安装在手表里的，这就意味着你可以用这个便携装置在好管闲事的保卫人员的眼皮底下堂而皇之地进入你的办公室。

44. The contraption held small plates of cattle blood and other substance that were covered by a thin membrane to mimic skin.

这种精密的装置里放了几小盘牛血和其他物质，上面盖有模仿皮肤的薄膜。

45. The elaborate contraption might be mistaken for an engraved rolling pin.

这种精细的制品往往会被误认为刻了花纹的擀面棍。

46. There's also a rain-fly that goes over this contraption in bad weather.

那也有雨篷奇妙的设计可以渡过恶劣天气。

47. His most brilliant contraption, however, was remarkable for its simplicity.Using an array of mirrors, Archimedes directed and concentrated the sun's rays onto the Roman ships and set them ablaze.

阿基米德最辉煌的发明最是简单：他摆下镜阵，把阳光集中射向罗马战船，令战船火焚烧。

48. With an earsplitting burst of superheated steam, the contraption lifts Ross gently into the air and, for a few noisy seconds, he is flying.

随着加热的蒸汽发出震耳欲聋的爆鸣声，装置缓缓将罗斯推到空中，闹哄哄的几秒钟后，他就在自由飞行了。

49. First, I had to put on restrictive bindings to impede the movements of my main joints.Then a contraption was placed over my ankle and foot, seriously hampering my ability to move my foot independently of the rest of my leg.

首先，我必须套上妨碍主要关节运动的限制性绷带，随后，一种特殊装置又放到踝关节部位和脚上，使我的脚不能随便动，必须和腿一起活动。

50. Marconi began his work by fixing up a simple contraption, similar to the one used by Hertz in his discovery, and trying this out on a table.

马可尼的实验开始于设计一种简单的、类似于赫兹在实验中所采用的装置。 他将其放在一张桌子上进行试验。

51. The experience of taxiing such a large plane was acquired in a contraption called "Waddell’s Wagon," named after Jack Waddell, the company’s chief test pilot.

驾驶如此巨大的飞机的经验通过一种名叫“威德尔”的装置获得的，它是以公司的首席试飞员，杰克 威德尔，命名的。

52. The contraption was so easy to run, Wyatt said, that businesses didn't need as many skilled craftspeople with spinning wheels;they could get by with children instead.

魏雅特说这个机器操作简易，因此企业不需要那麽多娴熟纺车操作的工人，以童工取代即可。