| 释义 |
prefabricate, v.|priːˈfæbrɪkeɪt|
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To manufacture (sections of a building or similar structure) in a factory or yard prior to their assembly on a site, esp. when they are larger or more complex than those considered traditional; also with the building as obj. Also absol. and fig.
1932W. H. Ham in Architecture Apr. 187/1 We can prefabricate 90 per cent of a house in the factory, assemble it, and make it a permanent, attractive, useful home. 1939Christian Sci. Monitor 3 Mar. 4/1 Practically every steel bridge is prefabricated, or put together in the back yard of the bridge builders before the pieces are taken apart, labeled and shipped for erection on the site. Ibid. 4/2 Ironwork firm, by prefabricating, makes sure that parts will join. 1941Times (Weekly ed.) 23 Apr. 2 Four new plants now being erected in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas..will assemble annually 3,600 heavy bombers from parts pre-fabricated in automobile factories. 1944Hansard Commons 7 Mar. 1906 In the most recent class of frigates at least 80 per cent. of the structure has been prefabricated. 1947News Chron. 8 Apr. 2/2 The political structure which is being pre-fabricated with some success cannot be placed in position until its economic foundations have been laid. 1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. vii. 108 How far will it be possible to ‘pre-fabricate’, so to speak, this vocabulary, when preparing a programme of automatic translation, by establishing in advance a mixed vocabulary peculiar to such a translation? 1964Times Rev. Industry Feb. 3/1 Five Clyde shipbuilding firms are at present prefabricating houses. 1965R. B. White Prefabrication iii. vi. 300 The overall tendency to prefabricate has continued to make headway, particularly for buildings which form part of a national programme of expansion or modernization. 1974Sci. Amer. Feb. 94/3 The Crystal Palace was the first great iron-framed building... It was also..the first for which the structural units were prefabricated. |