| 单词 | electric |
| 释义 | electric (ɪlektrɪk ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A2 An electric device or machine works by means of electricity, rather than using some other source of power. ...her electric guitar. Synonyms: electric-powered, powered, cordless, battery-operated 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1 An electric current, voltage, or charge is one that is produced by electricity. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1 Electric plugs, sockets, or power lines are designed to carry electricity. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Electric is used to refer to the supply of electricity. [informal] An average electric bill might go up $2 or $3 per month. 5. adjective If you describe the atmosphere of a place or event as electric, you mean that people are in a state of great excitement. The mood in the hall was electric. Synonyms: charged, exciting, stirring, thrilling Collocations: electric device As we saw this week, the two-wheeled electric device provides a stable platform for a camera. Times, Sunday Times Post-holiday cleaning will be a breeze for a retired couple who use an 88-year-old electric device that vacuums, sprays paint, buffs, grinds coffee and even minces meat. Times, Sunday Times As to the surgical procedure, ablation (or fulguration) of endometriosis (burning and vaporizing the lesions with a pointy electric device) has shown high rate of short-term recurrence after the procedure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A surge protector attempts to limit the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or by shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The inherent flaw in this method was that turning off a single lamp (or other electric device) affected the voltage supplied to all others on the same circuit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was the best editor on the planet, he had amazing blue eyes and this electric energy. Times, Sunday Times The actor lost nearly 3st for the part, but as his body shrinks his mind seems to explode with uncontainable electric energy. Times, Sunday Times Homopolar generators can be used to convert the kinetic energy of a flywheel into electric energy very rapidly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also includes information about the production of electric energy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Annual electric energy production depends on the available water supply. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Partly powered by a plug-in electric engine, the hybrid i8 has the futuristic looks to match its space age technology. The Sun And its emissions will be half as big thanks to a hybrid petrol and electric engine. The Sun But you can go to 75mph just with the electric engine. Times, Sunday Times In traffic, and at low speeds, the vehicles rely on an electric engine, cutting carbon emissions and noise pollution. Times, Sunday Times No details on the electric engine but my sources say there will also be diesel and petrol options. The Sun When we arrived we asked to cool off in front of an electric fan. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale (2007) A dishwasher, fridge-freezer and electric fan oven come as standard. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Builders arrived, walls were raised, electric fencing unrolled. Times, Sunday Times Livestock fencing should cost about 7 a metre, and electric fencing may be needed too. Times, Sunday Times Were this proposal to be taken to its logical conclusion, we would have to ban all electric fencing. Times, Sunday Times The crooks even took hen houses and electric fencing. The Sun Alternatives include fencing topped with plain wire or electric fencing, which deters cattle from leaning against it and knocking it over. Times, Sunday Times A patch of waste ground became a starter venue and now a full-scale track with floodlights and an electric gate. Times, Sunday Times They branded her a 'self-centred attention-seeker' prone to over-dramatising events — even blaming a power cut at the electric gate to her home on evil spirits. The Sun He comes walking down the lane towards the electric gate that has stopped responding to prompts from inside the house. Times, Sunday Times Now you approach the house via an electric gate and 200 yards of smart gravel drive, bordered on one side by a field of wheat. Times, Sunday Times There were so many cars that the electric gate mechanism broke down. Times, Sunday Times Solar refrigeration can also be inexpensive and it would give the electric grid much-needed relief. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also follows the partial nationalisation of the electric grid in 2010, including hydroelectric plants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1953, the generators were disconnected and power was supplied from the commercial electric grid. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1965 the village was connected to the electric grid and houses were connected to water mains for the first time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thermal power stations on the electric grid use fuel to produce electricity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Should the angels return, they would be likely to find many of the shepherds inside their homes next to an electric heater, watching television. Christianity Today This enables every radiator or electric heater in a home to be controlled over a smartphone, laptop or tablet computer. Times, Sunday Times There's a 65litre water tank with gas and electric heater for the shower. The Sun He fell and was nearly blinded when his face hit an electric heater. The Sun He lived in his front room with a narrow bed covered in a faded pink eiderdown and an electric heater for the winter. Times, Sunday Times This will make electric heating more affordable in the long term. Times,Sunday Times It also has electric heating, a cute country-style kitchen and off-road parking. Times, Sunday Times Has he checked the price of electric heating versus gas recently? Times, Sunday Times So should you switch to electric heating? Times,Sunday Times You can achieve this easily by fitting a small electric heating element with a thermostatic control in the back of the wardrobe. Times, Sunday Times It's amazing what you can do with an electric kettle, including boiling an egg. Times, Sunday Times (2007) I've bought him an electric kettle. The Sun (2014) How do you improve on the electric kettle? Times, Sunday Times (2014) Now he's graduated to electric keyboard. Times, Sunday Times He considers the instrument now obsolete and recommends the use of a current electric keyboard. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He went on to play both piano and electric keyboard which he still enjoys. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She gave each orphan a care package, which consisted of bookbags, t-shirts, sunglasses, notebooks and an electric keyboard. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2006 instrumentation grew from a single electric keyboard, to include trumpets, euphonium, tuba, timpani and other percussion, and other instruments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was credited with inventing, or significantly advancing, electric lighting, storage batteries, the motion picture camera, the phonograph and even cement making—among many other things. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Swan called this 'the first proper installation of electric lighting'. Times, Sunday Times They were wired to provide electric lighting and air conditioning. Times, Sunday Times Equipped with electric lighting and ventilation, it surfaces inside a building surrounded by green fields, and probably cost about 3 million to excavate. Times, Sunday Times They sported curtains with a nautical design and were kitted out with electric lighting, fitted carpets and running water. Times, Sunday Times In that case, go for an electric mower with a rechargeable battery, or one of the new breed of petrol engines with a catalytic converter. Times, Sunday Times Electric mowers are more convenient, however, and those with rechargeable batteries are the safest. Times, Sunday Times Second best, on the green front, are electric mowers, which have no exhaust emissions and reduce noise pollution. Times, Sunday Times Electric mowers can be turned upside down and scraped free of caked-on clippings. Times, Sunday Times Electric mowers, while producing pollution at the power plant, have no exhaust emissions and reduce noise pollution. Times, Sunday Times It combines gas burners with an electric oven. Times, Sunday Times Most ideally want an eye-level combination steam and electric oven with an induction hob on the side; or, if they have space, on an island. Times, Sunday Times We did try once or twice, but decided we couldn't wait until midnight for our roast chicken, so put it in the electric oven instead. Times, Sunday Times Some food pouches are ready to eat and can be heated in an electric oven that looks like a suitcase. Times, Sunday Times She had never used an electric oven or seen a microwave or travelled in a lift. Times, Sunday Times Its industries rely on electric power and the country imports huge amounts of oil and gas. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The electric power industry expanded rapidly. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995) Fuel cells make electric power by combining hydrogen with oxygen and harnessing the current that results from the reaction. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The electric power steering is too sudden. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The electric power steering and the brakes feel cheap. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Within a generation we could witness the shift to silent, electric propulsion and the petrol engine will become the preserve of the rich and famous. The Sun About 2 per cent of the global shipping fleet has some form of electric propulsion - not dissimilar to rates in the automotive industry. Times, Sunday Times They are driven by battery-run electric propulsion units. The Sun Of course, electric propulsion only really makes completely sound environmental sense if it used nuclear power stations. Times, Sunday Times Its foray into electric propulsion hasn't come at the expense of the petrol-powered dinosaurs, many of which are simply sublime. Times, Sunday Times A fraction east, there once commenced an unusual mode of transport: a seashore electric railway. Times, Sunday Times In 1978 the electric railway closed, due to deterioration and the cost of repairs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The city agreed to a 30-year electric railway in 1893 following which the horse tramways disappeared. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He assisted in experiments on the telephone, phonograph, electric railway, iron ore separator, electric lighting, and other developing inventions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was an advanced system for its time, being an electric railway, powered by overhead electric cables. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He accepts his inner wolf, dons his surgical gloves, picks up an electric saw and gets to work on the therapist. Times, Sunday Times Protesters cheered as they felled one lamppost with rope and an electric saw, after a demonstration demanding its removal. Times, Sunday Times In the operating theatre they used an electric saw to tidy him up. Times, Sunday Times He tried to pinch an electric saw in another burglary the same day. The Sun The body was cut into 1-centimeter slices using an electric saw, and the muscle was carefully cut away. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Can you undertake a horse when riding an electric scooter? Times,Sunday Times She travelled to the tunnel area on an electric scooter, which she had chosen because it was silent and would not draw attention. Times,Sunday Times It will have to be distinctive to mark the device out as an electric scooter. Times,Sunday Times He can 'still walk fine' but often moves around the factory floor on an electric scooter. Times, Sunday Times Police will carry out spot checks on electric scooter riders under new measures to prevent them being used by drunks or on pavements. Times,Sunday Times He changed his mind when they applied his hand to an electric stove. Times, Sunday Times We are having to use his old electric stove which costs him more in electricity. The Sun There was a new electric stove and refrigerator and plenty of cupboards. Globe and Mail Indoor heaters are banned as a hazard, so she cooks on an electric stove while wearing a woolly hat and a padded jacket. Times, Sunday Times His electric stove was covered with ash and pieces of concrete. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Next I splash my face five times and brush my teeth for two minutes with an electric toothbrush. Times, Sunday Times (2006) To make sure you hit the right time, keep a two-minute egg timer in the bathroom or check to see if your electric toothbrush has a timer. The Sun (2014) Things I miss: electric toothbrush. Times, Sunday Times (2016) This electric toothbrush comes with a digital timer. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Ensure you brush the correct way by switching to an electric toothbrush. The Sun (2014) In later years he joked that his musical career had been an accident because he had asked for an electric train set. Times, Sunday Times As we head into the country (by electric train), the fields are fewer and the hedges and woodland are sprawling. Times,Sunday Times Thumb the starter and the 1255cc engine comes in so smoothly that the bike hardly vibrates - it pulls away like an electric train. Times, Sunday Times They will emit at least double the carbon dioxide emissions per mile of a standard electric train. Times, Sunday Times A tiny electric train whisks you down among charcoal drawings of mammoths and bears - and you can see the smoke left by ancient torches on the ceiling. Times, Sunday Times In the late 1960s the company supplied nuclear reactor systems and fabricated uranium fuel for electric utility companies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These founders envisioned the creation of a computer utility whose computational power would be as reliable as an electric utility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This reporting system, initiated by the electric utility industry in 1982, expands and extends the data collection procedures begun by the industry in 1963. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Municipal water supply was introduced in 1894 and an electric utility began operating in 1896. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the early 1970s, he held appointive regulatory positions in the federal government, and then became general counsel of a major electric utility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are then lighting the home-made cigarettes from kettle elements and bare electric wire that the watchdog warns is a fire hazard. Times, Sunday Times (2011) He was furiously at work upstairs with coils of electric wiring. MURDER MOVES IN Translations: Chinese: 电的 Japanese: 電気の |
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