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

• About the culture machinery during this times the mode of dissolved oxygen machine was various, e. g. impeller-type, waterwheel type, jet type, spray type, tube type, pneumonia type, eddy current type, and so on.
  在养殖机械方面，这一时期的增氧机品种已发展到叶轮式、水车式、射流式、喷水式、充气式、涡流式等多种型式。
• The utility model relates to a waterwheel type automatic fish collection device, pertaining to the field of fishery science.
  本实用新型涉及一种水车式鱼类自动采集装置，属于水产渔业科学领域。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The impulse of falling water turns the waterwheel. It uses pneumatic air as power and automatic controlling.
  落水的冲力使水轮转动。采用气压为动力和自动控制，配件不怕水，可直接冲洗。
• The application of wind power had led the waterwheel technology to the third apex.
  风力的出现把传统水车技术推向了第三个高峰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。