| 单词 | retrofit |
| 释义 | retrofit (once / 25863 pages) vn When you retrofit something, you replace old parts with new ones. You might retrofit an antique car with updated brakes and seat belts, for example. You can use retrofit as a verb, or it can be a noun meaning the new part itself, or something that's added on later. The solar panels on your two hundred year old house are a retrofit, and so is the fancy new stereo in your beat up old car. Retrofit has been around since the mid-1950s, when retroactive and refit were combined into a new word. WORD FAMILYretrofit: retrofits, retrofitted, retrofitting USAGE EXAMPLESRich retrofitted the American lyric idiom to the exploration of trauma. The New Yorker(Dec 19, 2016) The 52-year-old information-technology contractor was frustrated when he heard such a critical upgrade was needed on a two-year-old car, but he chose the retrofit option. Wall Street Journal(Dec 17, 2016) An artist colony inside was evicted to enable the retrofit, and the building is now prime office space. Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016) 1v provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 2v fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house The mansion was retrofitted with modern plumbing Hyper instal, install, put in, set up set up for use 3v substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones The laboratory retrofitted to meet the safety codes Hyper modernise, modernize, overhaul make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to 4n a component or accessory added to something after it has been manufactured Hyper component, constituent, element an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system 5n the act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was manufactured the court ordered a retrofit on all automobiles Hyper addition the act of adding one thing to another |
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