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- a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works工程师; 技师; 机械师。
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- a person qualified in a branch of engineering, especially as a professional（工程领域的）专家：
an aeronautical engineer.
航天专家。
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- a person who controls an engine, especially on an aircraft or ship（尤指飞机、轮船上的）机师; 轮机员。
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- N. Amer. a train driver〈北美〉火车司机。
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- a skilful contriver or originator of something策划者; 设计者; 发明者：
the prime engineer of the approach.
这种方法的主要发明者。
with obj.
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- design and build (a machine or structure)设计; 制造（机器, 建筑物）：
the men who engineered the tunnel.
设计隧道的人们。
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- modify (an organism) by manipulating its genetic material改变（生物体）的遗传性状（或基因结构）：
as adj., with submodifier (engineered) genetically engineered plants.转基因植物。
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- skilfully or artfully arrange for (an event or situation) to occur精心安排（事件, 情景）; 策划：
she engineered another meeting with him.
她精心安排了与他的另一次会面。
词源
Middle English （denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer ）： in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare 'contrive, devise', from Latin ingenium （see ENGINE ）; in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -EER.