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单词

pneumatic

读音
nuːˈmætɪk
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词根

Pneumatic 的词根在于 "pneuma" 这个希腊词,它的意思是 "wind" 或 "breath"。 由此词根衍生的其他单词有:'Pneumatology'(气精神论,研究圣神的学问), 'pneumonia'(肺炎,通过空气传播)。

释义

adj. 气动的;充气的;有气胎的 n. 气胎

例句

The L/G support the aircraft on the ground and oil-pneumatic shock absorbers absorb taxi and landing loads.
起落架在地面支撑飞机,油气式减震器吸收滑行和降落的负载。
I learned something: a pneumatic nail gun does not a carpenter make.
通过此事,我认识到:气钉枪不如一个木匠。
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.
鼾声(最高达69分贝)的响度可能相当于风钻的噪音。

强化记忆

要记住这个单词,可以把它和 "pneu-" 这个前缀关联起来,这个前缀在许多和气体、空气以及涉及到气体和空气的动作和过程的单词中出现,如 "pneumonia".Pneumatic 这个词由古希腊词 “pneuma” 衍生而来,这个词在希腊神话中表示 "生命之风" 或 "生命气息"。希腊人用 “pneuma" 来指代灵魂或精神。在科学发展后,该词被用于科学、工程和医学领域中,涉及到气压和气流的概念。

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Building on the rocky river bed involved the use of a largely untested technology:pneumatic caissons.Workers lowered these airtight wooden boxes into the river,
Things got even worse when, in 1887,a Scottish inventor redeveloped the pneumatic tire,creating a massive international market for rubber.
But we've also looked at other ways to create more complex shape change.So we've used pneumatic actuation to create a morphing devicewhere you can go from something that looks a lot like a phone ...
each one which has its own capability to sense temperature and pressure.It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on,so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.
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