| 释义 |
robotize, v.|ˈrəʊbətaɪz|
[f. robot + -ize.]
trans. a. = automate v. 1. b. fig. To render mechanical or lifeless, to cause to act as if lacking will or consciousness. So ˈrobotized ppl. a.; also robotiˈzation.
1927C. M. Grieve Albyn 46 Dostoevsky's mistake was to imagine that Russia alone could prevent the robotization of Europe. 1927Daily Express 7 Nov. 10/2 Lacking a skilled class of artisans, it is only by Robotising industry that she can hope to fight her way back to prosperity. 1928Ibid. 20 Apr. 13/3 Sir William Joynson-Hicks..protested that he had not seen any sign during the last few months that the House [of Commons] had become robotised. 1928Observer 15 Jan. 11/2 These robotised people..are only employed and allowed to exist because no one has yet been sufficiently energetic to invent a machine to replace them. 1930Ibid. 16 Feb. 17/6 He adds..that in machine mass production lies the foundation of the evil, saying: ‘We must not robotise America.’ 1952B. Wolfe Limbo xv. 236 Even when I was a kid the big plants had been pretty completely robotized. 1967L. von Bertalanffy Robots, Men & Minds ii. 64 The robotization of the human individual. 1969N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Jan. 13/4 The masses, through state victory chants, book burning,..robotized phalanxes of soldiers, devour their enemies. 1975New Yorker 21 Apr. 24/2 Katharine Ross plays the young New Yorker who moves to Stepford and discovers that the wives have been robotized by their husbands. 1976Sci. Amer. Feb. 77/1 During the 1930's and 1940's petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants were extensively ‘robotized’ by inserting rather simple analogue control instruments in the feedback loops that regulated the pressure, temperature and flow rates in distillation columns, catalytic crackers and other equipment designed to process continuously flowing materials. |