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。
• The versatile waterwheel in ancient China and its restoration
  中国古代多用水轮及其复原
• 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。
• An artificial cut was made from the river to bring the water at proper height to the waterwheel.
  人们在河中引出一条人工水道把水在适当高度引向水车。
• 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。
• Though the traditional waterwheel possesses an excellent efficiency, there are differences in the aspects of irrigating capability and irrigating for different types of waterwheels.
  传统水车虽功效显著，但在实际应用中灌溉能力、灌溉效率存有差异。
• The impulse of falling water turns the waterwheel.
  落水的冲力使水轮转动。
• China can be regarded as the birthplace of waterwheel technology.
  中国是传统水车技术的发源地。
• 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。
• During the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the traditional waterwheel had been improved further and developed into several types: one is the small-scale waterwheel run by hand, and the other is large-scale, wind-driven rollover and waterwheel used solely in Lanzhou.
  明清时期，传统水车进一步完善，出现了两极化现象：一种是小型化的拔车；一种是大型化的风力翻车和兰州水车。