waterwheel

英 [ˈwɔːtəwiːl]

美 [ˈwɔːtərwiːl]

n.  (尤指旧时的)水轮，水车

复数：waterwheels　

BNC.29740 / COCA.43207

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指旧时的）水轮，水车
  a wheel turned by the movement of water, used, especially in the past, to drive machinery

英英释义

noun

• a wheel that rotates by direct action of water
  Synonym:water wheel
• a wheel with buckets attached to its rim
  Synonym:water wheel

双语例句

• The waterwheel had promoted the local agriculture and made a certain contribution for the global agriculture civilization, therefore it had a proper place in the history of science and technology communication.
  传统水车的外传促进了当地农业生产的发展，改善了当地人的生活。是古代中国对世界农业文明的独特贡献，在中外科技交流史上占有一席之地。
• Love makes the world go round.& Charles Dickens The impulse of falling water turns the waterwheel.
  爱能使世界转动。&狄更斯落水的冲力使水轮转动。
• While promoting the agriculture economy, the traditional waterwheel has been developing and improving itself continuously, thus possesses four distinct features: firstly, it emerged at a very early time.
  传统水车在促进农业经济发展的同时，自身也不断发展与完善，具有以下四个特点：一是产生时间早。
• He wheeled round and dashed for the door. The impulse of falling water turns the waterwheel.
  他一转身便向门口冲去。
• Since the Song Dynasty, the tube waterwheel began to prosper, and had been popularized in some mountainous and hilly regions with abundant water resources, where it had become a powerful tool for irrigation.
  宋以后，筒车开始兴盛，在南方一些山地丘陵水力资源丰富的地区得到推广，成为山地灌溉之利器。
• With the expansion of crop-planted area, the waterwheel had also been promoted with great force in the northern regions, and among them the most typical is Beijing-Tianjin region and Lanzhou.
  随着稻作区的扩大，水车在北方也得到了大力推广，尤以京津地区和西北兰州地区最为典型。
• The waterwheel type automatic fish collection device of the utility model realizes continuous collection of fishes, has simple design, low operation cost and can protect the health of samples.
  本实用新型实现了对鱼类的连续采集，设计简单、运行成本低廉、保护样本健康。
• The utilization of the water power was a symbol of the second apex of waterwheel development.
  水力的利用，是水车技术发展的第二个高峰。
• The waterwheel type automatic fish collection device of the utility model is driven by water flow to drag fishes from the water automatically, gathered in the fish gathering box.
  本实用新型被水流推动，自动将水中鱼类捞起，集中在集鱼箱中。
• Your heartbeat, the pushing of a lawn mower, a baseball speeding through the air, water falling onto a waterwheel, the prying up of a rock with a crowbar-all are mechanical energy, which, of course, was another form of energy earlier.
  你的心脏跳动、推进割草机、棒球在空中高速飞过、水落入水轮机、用撬杠撬开石头等等，所有这些都是机械能，当然，在转化之前它是另一种能量形式。