| 单词 | 水力 |
| 释义 | 〔electrohydraulic〕Of, relating to, or involving a combination of electric and hydraulic mechanisms.电动液压的：属于，关于或含有电气和水力的联合机构的〔agroindustrial〕Of or relating to the production or supply of various needs, such as water or power, for agriculture and industry.为工农业的：关于农业和工业各种所需产品或供应的，如水力或电力的生产和供应〔waterpower〕The energy produced by running or falling water that is used for driving machinery, especially for generating electricity.水力：用于开动机器的流水或降落之水产生的能量，尤其用于发电〔hydraulic〕Of, involving, moved by, or operated by a fluid, especially water, under pressure.水力的，水压的：压力下的液体（尤指的水）的、涉及到液体的、靠液体移动或操作的〔mill〕Industrial mill towns are a far cry from the small water mill grinding grain near an Anglo-Saxon settlement,but the same wordmill is used in both contexts, showing how the meaning of a word can be generalized.The Old English wordmylen, "water mill for grinding grain,” is itself adopted from Late Latinmolīna or molīnum, "mill,” just as the Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxons, adopted the water mill from the Romans.In Middle Englishmilne, the descendant of the Old English word, was generalized to refer to a windmill, any power-driven mill for grinding grain, and a fulling mill.But it was left for the postmedieval,increasingly industrialized world really to generalize the meaning ofmill, applying it to machines such as pepper mills and cider millsand buildings such as textile mills and steel mills.Mill town is first recorded in 1847. 工业化的制造区与原来盎格鲁-撒克逊人居住地附近那种靠水力推动来磨谷物的小型磨臼大不相同，但mill 这个词对这两种情况都适用， 这可以体现出某一词汇的意思是可以有概括性的。古英语中mylen 一词有“磨谷物的水磨”的意思， 这个词由后期拉丁语中的molina 或 molinum 而来，意为“磨臼”， 正如日尔曼民族中的盎格鲁-撒克逊人从罗马人那里引进了水磨。中古英语中milne 一词由古英语词而来， 它的词义已扩大，可指风车、任何靠动力驱动来磨谷物的磨以及缩洗机。不过在中世纪晚期，不断发展的工业化世界真正使mill 这个词在意义上有所扩大， 它可以指胡椒研磨机或苹果榨汁机等机器，也可以指纺织厂或钢铁厂等工厂。Mill town 这个词最早见载于1847年 〔Pawtucket〕A city of northeast Rhode Island, an industrial suburb of Providence. The first successful water-powered cotton mill in the United States was built here (1790-1793) by Samuel Slater. Population, 72,644.波塔基特：罗得岛东北一城市，普罗维登斯一工业郊区。美国第一家成功的水力棉纺厂由塞缪尔在这里建立(1790-1793年）。人口72,644〔Slater〕British-born textile pioneer in America. He oversaw construction of the nation's first successful water-powered cotton mill (1790-1793).斯莱特，塞缪尔：(1768-1835) 英国裔美国纺织业先驱。他督造了美国第一个成功的水力棉花加工厂(1790-1793年）〔waterpower〕A water right owned by a mill.用水权：工厂的水力使用权 |
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