engine是什么意思

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Until ships became large enough (and engines small enough) to mount two engines side by side, they needed to keep sails.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

It's clear that petrol-driven engines have no future.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Now, however, recent developments in electric vehicle technology mean they can match conventional petrol engines in terms of performance and safety

出自-2013年6月听力原文

He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the perfect search engine will understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Google's core business is search and find, so obviously what helps improve Google's search engine is good for Google," he says.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

make full use of the power of its search engine

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Lending is the coal to our engine, so we want to make more loans.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

The partnership benefits both sides by allowing unconventional partners for example, two companies from two different industries to work together on a specific aspect of the value chain, like, in this example, an engine firm with an accessory one.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ