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单词 apparatus
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Definition of apparatus in English:

apparatus

nounPlural apparatuses ˌapəˈreɪtəs
  • 1mass noun The technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose.

    设备

    firemen wearing breathing apparatus
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Officers wearing breathing apparatus used hand tools to break into the injured man's flat and rescue him from his bedroom.
    • Lucky for me I brought the full-faced respirator and self-contained breathing apparatus with me.
    • Firefighters, wearing breathing apparatus, found the first floor smoke-logged and saw flames coming from the airing cupboard door.
    • That required a whole raft of equipment and apparatus to meet that designation.
    • They will be wearing breathing apparatus and protective equipment.
    • Fire crews, using breathing apparatus, had to search the building and ensure no persons were either trapped or seriously injured by the blaze.
    • We were then shown all the various equipment, apparatus and tools aboard the engines, which have to be checked and cleaned daily.
    • Most include putting on self-contained breathing apparatus, getting hoses into place and using them to hit targets with water.
    • Cardiological equipment, surgical and orthopaedic instruments, respiratory equipment, and diagnostic apparatus are among the primary imports.
    • Brigade policy is that all facial hair must be within the empty space of a face mask and must not interfere with the wearing of breathing apparatus by coming into contact with the rubber surround.
    • Original scientific equipment and apparatus will be displayed with the latest communication and exhibition technology.
    • The landing craft was equipped with instruments for communication and analysis including radio equipment, scientific apparatus, and a television system.
    • Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus dragged a man from the inferno before using hose reels to douse the flames in a 70-minute operation.
    • He said: ‘Two of the firefighters had to go in wearing breathing apparatus.’
    • The procedures and apparatus required for extraction purposes are simple.
    • Much of the distilling operation was lost including the newly acquired equipment and apparatus for the beginnings of the business.
    • About 30 firefighters, some of them wearing breathing apparatus, were needed to bring the flames under control.
    • Six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus went into the smoke-logged building and had to force an entry into the rooms to make sure the building was evacuated.
    • Firefighters using breathing apparatus waded through thick, acrid smoke and intense heat after a neighbour said he believed the woman was still inside.
    • There would also be more discussions on matters such as better emergency training and equipment, including breathing apparatus for rail staff and the strengthening of drivers' cabs.
    Synonyms
    equipment, gear, rig, tackle, gadgetry, paraphernalia
    appliance, instrument, tool, utensil, machine, mechanism, device, contraption
    hardware, plant, machinery
    informal things, stuff
    British informal gubbins
  • 2The complex structure of a particular organization or system.

    (某一组织或系统内部的)复杂结构

    the apparatus of government

    政府的内部结构。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This change in the structure of the state apparatus itself has led to divisions among employers and within the Liberal-National Coalition.
    • They were also rejected by the bureaucratic apparatuses which took over first the social democratic and later, under Stalin, the communist parties.
    • I said they continue to use some of the apparatuses of socialism to organise the state.
    • We know that the government are reconfiguring the apparatus of the intelligence community to concentrate in these areas.
    • Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
    • The apparatus of local government is obviously much less complex than that of semi-independence.
    • The party vowed to intensify the fight corruption within the state apparatus and the whole political system.
    • Nonetheless, the legal apparatus supporting the fiscal system recognized this oversight.
    • Prior to this, the military apparatus, the judicial system, and the religious establishment were already in the hands of the conservative circles.
    • This creates a disjuncture of relative development, with the economy much more advanced in its global organization than either the apparatuses of governance or the patterns of human identity.
    • Serious art over the next period will come into greater and greater conflict with the framework of the profit system and its political apparatus.
    • One forum is the liberal democratic party system and the bureaucratic apparatus of government.
    • The union apparatus becomes an institutional structure within existing society.
    • As a result, the movement is both militant and careful because false steps and excessive aggression are severely punished by more brutal dictators and state security apparatuses than exist elsewhere.
    • In other words, resistance is linked immediately with a constitutive investment in the biopolitical realm and to the formation of cooperative apparatuses of production and community.
    • The history of the visual arts under Fascism includes the bureaucratic apparatus imposed by the regime, and the individual contributions of those who collaborated in varying degrees.
    • The other, which was probably unintended though wholly predictable, has been to create a bureaucratic apparatus which has brought many strong men and women to their knees.
    • It then undertook the dismantling of much of its socialist policy and organisational structure but not its political apparatuses - thereby earning derision on both counts.
    • Jews were without a state for 1,878 years, yet developed administrative apparatuses to govern communal affairs and to interface with monarchies and state governments.
    • To say that they have systemic power is to say that the logic of the social system itself affirms their interests quite apart from their conscious strategies and the internal organization of political apparatuses.
    Synonyms
    structure, system, framework, organization, set-up, network
    hierarchy, chain of command
  • 3A collection of notes, variant readings, and other matter accompanying a printed text.

    (印刷文本后面所附的)注释、文选及其他资料。亦称APPARATUS CRITICUS

    one thing about the book's apparatus does irritate: the absence of an index of titles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It does not help that the scholarly apparatus betrays an equally infirm commitment to rigour.
    • Well, I guess we weren't settled long enough to have all the apparatus that grows up around the writing of poetry.
    • As stated before, the critical apparatus also benefits from recent research and developments in Valéry studies.
    • A celebrated advantage of electronic editions of early modern literature is their capacity for representing multiple states of the text while avoiding a critical apparatus that relegates variants to footnotes.
    • The music is discussed without music examples but the full apparatus of notes and a list of works is provided.
    • The appeal of these poems, even separated from their apparatuses, is for me two-fold.
    • The novel needs a new order, a higher level, of thinking on the part of its readers, and at some stage of the not-too-distant future perhaps there should be a new edition with an apparatus of helpful notes.
    • For beneath their predictable monographic typefaces, layouts, and apparatuses, these books are not as comprehensive and conventional as they might appear.
    • The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
    • Their critical apparatus grinds into motion and, often many years later, buoyed by exegesis, the original at last rises to the surface.
    • His narrative of addiction doubles as a meta-critique on the compulsive desire to reproduce text and image that characterizes postmodern textualities as well as the apparatuses that produce them.
    • Furthermore, as noted above, a theory should generate its own apparatus whenever possible.
    • I can testify that the bibliographical apparatus in many articles is unsatisfactory and out-of-date.
    • It has none of the apparatus of a study volume, and its conceptual vocabulary belongs to the sphere of ecumenists and ecclesiologists, not to a general audience.
    • So the reader must resort to the apparatus and notes to figure out what interpretation is driving a given modernization choice.
    • As one might expect, the most significant addition to this edition is the critical apparatus.
    • This repetition of the oath in the editorial apparatus suggests a critical dis-ease with the play's most embodied speech-act.
    • In these works, the most metaphoric and the most literal understanding of bibliographic apparatuses can be seen to underwrite the logic of their content as well as their form.

Origin

Early 17th century: Latin, from apparare 'make ready for', from ad- 'towards' + parare 'make ready'.

  • This is a Latin word, from apparare ‘make ready for’, from parare ‘make ready’. Other words going back to parare include disparate (Late Middle English), ‘prepared apart’; pare (Middle English); prepare (Late Middle English) ‘prepare in advance’; and separate (Late Middle English) from se- ‘apart’ and parare.

Rhymes

Donatus, hiatus, status

Definition of apparatus in US English:

apparatus

noun
  • 1The technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose.

    设备

    laboratory apparatus

    实验室设备。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • That required a whole raft of equipment and apparatus to meet that designation.
    • Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus dragged a man from the inferno before using hose reels to douse the flames in a 70-minute operation.
    • Firefighters, wearing breathing apparatus, found the first floor smoke-logged and saw flames coming from the airing cupboard door.
    • He said: ‘Two of the firefighters had to go in wearing breathing apparatus.’
    • Firefighters using breathing apparatus waded through thick, acrid smoke and intense heat after a neighbour said he believed the woman was still inside.
    • Cardiological equipment, surgical and orthopaedic instruments, respiratory equipment, and diagnostic apparatus are among the primary imports.
    • The landing craft was equipped with instruments for communication and analysis including radio equipment, scientific apparatus, and a television system.
    • We were then shown all the various equipment, apparatus and tools aboard the engines, which have to be checked and cleaned daily.
    • Officers wearing breathing apparatus used hand tools to break into the injured man's flat and rescue him from his bedroom.
    • There would also be more discussions on matters such as better emergency training and equipment, including breathing apparatus for rail staff and the strengthening of drivers' cabs.
    • Lucky for me I brought the full-faced respirator and self-contained breathing apparatus with me.
    • The procedures and apparatus required for extraction purposes are simple.
    • About 30 firefighters, some of them wearing breathing apparatus, were needed to bring the flames under control.
    • Much of the distilling operation was lost including the newly acquired equipment and apparatus for the beginnings of the business.
    • Six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus went into the smoke-logged building and had to force an entry into the rooms to make sure the building was evacuated.
    • Fire crews, using breathing apparatus, had to search the building and ensure no persons were either trapped or seriously injured by the blaze.
    • They will be wearing breathing apparatus and protective equipment.
    • Original scientific equipment and apparatus will be displayed with the latest communication and exhibition technology.
    • Most include putting on self-contained breathing apparatus, getting hoses into place and using them to hit targets with water.
    • Brigade policy is that all facial hair must be within the empty space of a face mask and must not interfere with the wearing of breathing apparatus by coming into contact with the rubber surround.
    Synonyms
    equipment, gear, rig, tackle, gadgetry, paraphernalia
  • 2A complex structure within an organization or system.

    (某一组织或系统内部的)复杂结构

    the apparatus of government

    政府的内部结构。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The history of the visual arts under Fascism includes the bureaucratic apparatus imposed by the regime, and the individual contributions of those who collaborated in varying degrees.
    • The party vowed to intensify the fight corruption within the state apparatus and the whole political system.
    • I said they continue to use some of the apparatuses of socialism to organise the state.
    • This creates a disjuncture of relative development, with the economy much more advanced in its global organization than either the apparatuses of governance or the patterns of human identity.
    • Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
    • To say that they have systemic power is to say that the logic of the social system itself affirms their interests quite apart from their conscious strategies and the internal organization of political apparatuses.
    • The union apparatus becomes an institutional structure within existing society.
    • Jews were without a state for 1,878 years, yet developed administrative apparatuses to govern communal affairs and to interface with monarchies and state governments.
    • This change in the structure of the state apparatus itself has led to divisions among employers and within the Liberal-National Coalition.
    • We know that the government are reconfiguring the apparatus of the intelligence community to concentrate in these areas.
    • They were also rejected by the bureaucratic apparatuses which took over first the social democratic and later, under Stalin, the communist parties.
    • In other words, resistance is linked immediately with a constitutive investment in the biopolitical realm and to the formation of cooperative apparatuses of production and community.
    • Serious art over the next period will come into greater and greater conflict with the framework of the profit system and its political apparatus.
    • One forum is the liberal democratic party system and the bureaucratic apparatus of government.
    • It then undertook the dismantling of much of its socialist policy and organisational structure but not its political apparatuses - thereby earning derision on both counts.
    • The other, which was probably unintended though wholly predictable, has been to create a bureaucratic apparatus which has brought many strong men and women to their knees.
    • Prior to this, the military apparatus, the judicial system, and the religious establishment were already in the hands of the conservative circles.
    • The apparatus of local government is obviously much less complex than that of semi-independence.
    • Nonetheless, the legal apparatus supporting the fiscal system recognized this oversight.
    • As a result, the movement is both militant and careful because false steps and excessive aggression are severely punished by more brutal dictators and state security apparatuses than exist elsewhere.
    Synonyms
    structure, system, framework, organization, set-up, network
  • 3A collection of notes, variant readings, and other matter accompanying a printed text.

    (印刷文本后面所附的)注释、文选及其他资料。亦称APPARATUS CRITICUS

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His narrative of addiction doubles as a meta-critique on the compulsive desire to reproduce text and image that characterizes postmodern textualities as well as the apparatuses that produce them.
    • The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
    • Their critical apparatus grinds into motion and, often many years later, buoyed by exegesis, the original at last rises to the surface.
    • Furthermore, as noted above, a theory should generate its own apparatus whenever possible.
    • As stated before, the critical apparatus also benefits from recent research and developments in Valéry studies.
    • For beneath their predictable monographic typefaces, layouts, and apparatuses, these books are not as comprehensive and conventional as they might appear.
    • I can testify that the bibliographical apparatus in many articles is unsatisfactory and out-of-date.
    • So the reader must resort to the apparatus and notes to figure out what interpretation is driving a given modernization choice.
    • Well, I guess we weren't settled long enough to have all the apparatus that grows up around the writing of poetry.
    • The music is discussed without music examples but the full apparatus of notes and a list of works is provided.
    • A celebrated advantage of electronic editions of early modern literature is their capacity for representing multiple states of the text while avoiding a critical apparatus that relegates variants to footnotes.
    • The novel needs a new order, a higher level, of thinking on the part of its readers, and at some stage of the not-too-distant future perhaps there should be a new edition with an apparatus of helpful notes.
    • In these works, the most metaphoric and the most literal understanding of bibliographic apparatuses can be seen to underwrite the logic of their content as well as their form.
    • It has none of the apparatus of a study volume, and its conceptual vocabulary belongs to the sphere of ecumenists and ecclesiologists, not to a general audience.
    • The appeal of these poems, even separated from their apparatuses, is for me two-fold.
    • As one might expect, the most significant addition to this edition is the critical apparatus.
    • This repetition of the oath in the editorial apparatus suggests a critical dis-ease with the play's most embodied speech-act.
    • It does not help that the scholarly apparatus betrays an equally infirm commitment to rigour.

Origin

Early 17th century: Latin, from apparare ‘make ready for’, from ad- ‘towards’ + parare ‘make ready’.

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