1 N-UNCOUNT (总称)机器，机械 You can use machinery to refer to machines in general, or machines that are used in a factory or on a farm. (总称)机器，机械
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...quality tools and machinery.
质量上乘的工具和机械
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...your local garden machinery specialist.
你们当地的园艺机械专家
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Farmers import most of their machinery and materials.
农民的绝大部分机器和原料都来自进口。
SYN equipment, gear, instruments, apparatus
2 N-SING (国家)机构;机制;组织 The machinery of a government or organization is the system and all the procedures that it uses to deal with things. (国家)机构;机制;组织
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The machinery of democracy could be created quickly. [+ of]
民主制度可以迅速建立起来。
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...the government machinery and administrative procedures concerned with social provision.
与社会保障相关的政府机构和行政程序
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The full state and police machinery ground into action.
全州所有机构和警察部门已经开始行动了。
SYN administration, system, organization, agency
Quotations
The world is dying of machinery George Moore Confessions of a Young Man
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