| 释义 |
‖ engrenage|ɑ̃grənɑːʒ|
[Fr.]
fig. Gearing, putting into gear, meshing.
1918G. B. Shaw What I wrote about War (1930) 237 The prison machine would not release the two men caught in its engrenage. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 675/2 The new political romanticism of Communism believes that the reality can be dissipated by a new ordering of society; but probably it will succeed only in loosening one engrenage by imposing another. 1963Economist 19 Jan. 203/1 ‘Good Europeans’..sought consolation in the..theory of engrenage (getting into gear). |