| 单词 | equipment |
| 释义 | equip·ment 1. a. < the development and equipment of a library extension program > b. < the institution did not spring in full maturity and equipment — J.H.Burton > 2. a. < funds for buildings and equipment > < the vocal equipment of a singer > < a new jail became part of the municipal equipment — American Guide Series: Virginia > as (1) < where a tractor is standard equipment > < sports equipment > (2) < the plant, equipment, and supplies of the factory > (3) b. < having its own uniform, flag, and … a standardized equipment — S.B.Fay > c. < manufactured … an air-conditioning equipment for beds — Current Biography > < in what a desperate condition the Virginia troops were as regarded clothing and equipments — H.E.Scudder > 3. a. < prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry … soon become a part of a child's equipment — Episcopal Churchnews > : preparation < some knowledge of the facts of biology should be an essential part of the equipment of every educated man — Nineteenth Century & After > b. < a ready repartee is also a valuable equipment for anyone seeking high office — V.L.Albjerg > Synonyms: < the marines took with them full combat equipment, including tanks, artillery, jeeps, trucks, and flamethrowers — Time > < other equipment in the park includes tables, benches, and playground apparatus — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the only essential equipment for softball is a bat and a ball — J.H.Shaw > < innate equipment of the child (sensory, neural and glandular) — Psychological Abstracts > < the heroine, typically named Virginia, has no equipment for life but loveliness and innocence — Carl Van Doren > apparatus, a very general term, usually in this connection covers instruments, tools, machines, and appliances used in a craft or profession, or the equipment used in a sport or recreation, or, more generally, any contrivance or device or set of them commonly used in any activity < a collection of safecracking apparatus > < drill, X-ray machine, and other dental apparatus > < punitive apparatus — bilboes, stocks, pillories, and ducking stools — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < she had insisted on leaving in his room the materials and apparatus for a light meal — Arnold Bennett > machinery covers all devices, means, or agencies which permit a thing to function or accomplish an end < the machinery of criminal identification > < the treaty must be given the kind of machinery which will permit it to operate efficiently — New Republic > < the machinery of advertising and propaganda — Jerome Stone > < the machinery of recruitment — written examinations, interviews, internal promotions or transfers — Times Literary Supplement > paraphernalia, sometimes contemptuous in implication, usually suggests a collection of miscellaneous articles or belongings constituting the usual, often necessary, appurtenances of a particular activity or person engaged in it < a golden chalice, vestments and cruets, all the paraphernalia for celebrating Mass — Willa Cather > < family allowances, maternity grants, and all the paraphernalia of social security — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < little piles of wheels, strips of unworked iron and steel, blocks of wood, the paraphernalia of the inventor's trade — Sherwood Anderson > < the chivalric romances … are of course replete with adventure of every kind: warlike knight-errantry, magic forests and fountains, enchanted castles, magicians, and all the other paraphernalia — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > outfit is more colloquially interchangeable with equipment but generally is confined to the personal effects necessary for a given occupation, recreation, function, or type of life < a fireman's outfit > < a camper's outfit consisting of high boots, poncho, sleeping bag, and cooking utensils > < a college girl's outfit > < a bride's outfit > < a soldier's outfit > tackle is colloquially interchangeable with apparatus < toothbrush and shaving tackle in the bedroom — Graham Greene > or equipment < fishing tackle > gear may be interchangeable with equipment, often transportable equipment or luggage < housekeeping gear — Dorothy C. Fisher > < we had a collapsible stage that broke down into boxes and battens and about a ton of gear which travelled with us in a large ancient but very game delivery van — Barry Carman > < we gathered together our gear and prepared to make our way back to the railroad station — Thomas Barbour > or with outfit, often in specific reference to wearing apparel < when cowboy gear became so popular — D.C.Morrill > or may signify one's belongings collectively < the student immediately stowed all his gear in his new room > matériel, confined usually to military or industrial use, is a comprehensive term to designate everything but the personnel < a heavy drain on both the manpower and matériel resources — New York Times > < the latest developments in artillery matériel — Combat Forces Journal > |
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