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
- a wheel with buckets attached to its rim
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - If you look on that waterwheel, you will see that it has fourteen buckets, which is quite unusual.
如果你观察那个水车，就会发现它带有14个戽斗，这是很不寻常的。 - Numerical Calculation of Transient Reactance of Waterwheel Generator
水轮发电机瞬态电抗的数值计算 - 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。 - 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。 - Numerical Calculation of Transient and Subtransient Reactances of Waterwheel Generator with Fractional-Slot Winding
分数槽绕组水轮发电机瞬态和超瞬态电抗的数值计算 - 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。 - China can be regarded as the birthplace of waterwheel technology.
中国是传统水车技术的发源地。 - 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。