Mechanical

(adj.) using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; 'a mechanical process'; 'his smile was very mechanical'; 'a mechanical toy' .

(adj.) relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics; 'a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance'; 'the mechanical pressure of a strong wind' .

(adj.) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools; 'mechanical arts'; 'mechanical design'; 'mechanical skills' .

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• His mouth was such a post-office of a mouth that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Against the unifying effort of Christendom and against the unifying influence of the mechanical revolution, catastrophe won. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And without those powers, what mechanical tool or machine has since been developed? 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In a little more than a century this mechanical revolution has been brought about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She was watching the fingers twitch across the eternal, mechanical, monotonous clock-face of time. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Upon this history, therefore, mechanical and illiberal as it may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), the greatest diligence must be bestowed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The contraction of the frog's legs may with considerable safety be said to be caused by these mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the conducting wires. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of mechanical motion intoxicated him, a confusion in nature. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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