(noun.) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job.
录入:勒达
双语例句
While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Field, John Burry--and remains in extensive use as an appliance for which no substitute or competitor has been found. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Should you attach an appliance of heavier wattage to a light socket you will doubtless blow a fuse. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The attention to fashion, the tasteful appliance of ornament in each portion of her dress, were quite in place with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
This appliance toasts bread evenly, rapidly, and costs very little to operate. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Among table appliances are toasters, coffee percolators, electric teapots, chafing dishes and numerous other articles that add to the convenience of preparing food. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The economic revolution has stimulated science by setting problems for solution, by producing greater intellectual respect for mechanical appliances. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
It is now possible, by means of electric appliances, practically to eliminate all drudgery from housework. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The eighteenth century, keenly curious and ceaselessly active in this fascinating field of investigation, had not, after all, left much of a legacy in either principles or appliances. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The building was wired from top to bottom, and equipped with all the appliances of the art. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
In heating appliances, steam and water heating systems, base burning and Latrobe stoves, hot air furnaces, gas and oil stoves. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
One thing most desirable in connection with practically all of the lamp-socket appliances described and illustrated in this section is the very small cost of operation. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
These are termed light-duty appliances, as they operate from the light socket. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
He must go to bed immediately, must have a regular nurse, and various appliances and precautions must be used, about which Lydgate was particular. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Dreary and solemn the old house looks, with so many appliances of habitation and with no inhabitants except the pictured forms upon the walls. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The principle in these appliances is the employment of two different metals which expand unequally, and thus maintain an uniformity of operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
And even for the individual worker, the convenient appliances and helps that have been invented have greatly relieved the occupation of pain and drudgery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
And it was this new model which caused the addressograph to take its place in the business world as one of the leading office appliances. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
It was natural that in the first development of mechanical appliances they should be devoted to those pursuits in which men had the greatest practical interest. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.