gadget

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英 ['gædʒɪt] 美['gædʒɪt]

释义

n. 小玩意；小器具；小配件；诡计

词态变化

复数: gadgets;

近义词

device instrument implement utensil tool apparatus contraption appliance

中文词源

gadget 不知名的小装置

词源不详，用来指各种不知名的小装置。拼写变体widget.

英文词源

gadget: gadget: [19] Gadget is an elusive sort of word, as vague in its history as it is unspecific in its meaning. It seems to have originated as a piece of sailors’ slang, and is said to have been current as long ago as the 1850s, but the earliest record of it in print is from 1886, in R Brown’s Spun Yarn and Spindrift: ‘Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don’t know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chickenfixing, or a gadjet, or a gill-guy, or a timmeynoggy, or a wim-wom – just pro tem., you know’.

As for its source, suggestions have included French gâchette ‘catch of a mechanism’ and French dialect gagée ‘tool’.
gadget (n.): 1886, gadjet (but said by OED corespondents to date from 1850s), sailors' slang word for any small mechanical thing or part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from French gâchette "catch-piece of a mechanism" (15c.), diminutive of gâche "staple of a lock." OED says derivation from gauge is "improbable."

双语例句

1. The gadget can be attached to any vertical surface.: 这小玩意儿可以粘在任何垂直表面上。

2. The gadget can be attached to any vertical or near vertical surface.: 该装置可以装在任何垂直或近似垂直的平面上。

3. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television.: 孩子们正在为抢夺电视机的遥控器而争吵。

4. The gadget is used to artificially inseminate cows.: 这个器具被用来为母牛实施人工授精。

5. This gadget isn't much good.: 这小机械没什么用处.

英英释意

1. a device that is very useful for a particular job

实用场景例句

...kitchen gadgets including toasters, kettles and percolators.: 烤面包机、水壶、滴滤式咖啡壶等厨用小家电

...the latest gadget for the technology obsessed: pocket-sized computers that you write on with a pen.: 面向科技发烧友的最新玩意儿：可在上面用笔书写的袖珍电脑

Like any gadget, the future home will only as good as its weakest link.: 像任何新发明一样, 未来的住宅几乎就是系统中最薄弱的环节.

Must a competitively priced new gadget come at the cost of young lives?: 我们必须要牺牲年轻的生命来换取具有价格竞争力的新设备吗 ?

The safety gadget on the door is very useful against burglary.: 门上的保险装置对防盗非常有用.

The ultimate retail gadget , though , is the REC's smart shopping trolley.: 零售终端设备, 就是REC里的顾客用的手推车.

But the new gadget onslaught seems the biggest ever.: 但这种新的小玩意儿的来势似乎比以往任何时候都猛烈.

She has invented a nifty little gadget for undoing stubborn nuts and bolts.: 她发明了一种灵巧的小工具用来松开紧固的螺母和螺栓.

A bottle opener is a kitchen gadget.: 开瓶器是厨用小器具.

Of course, on such a gadget that you could not live without, your mobile.: 当然, 它和你最密不可分的小玩意紧相关连, 那就是你的手机.

But until all the gadget makers get on board, you sometimes see only generic icons here.: 但是,直到所有的电子设备制造商在船上的时候, 你有时会看到这里只有通用图标.

The gadget is simply marvelous!: 这玩意儿简直好极了!

Already they have to walk me through how to use almost any new electronic gadget.: 他们已经初步教会我如何使用那些新奇的电子小玩意儿.

I'm not talking about an electronic gadget or some special effects in a movie.: 我指的并非新款电子产品,或是电影中神乎其技的特效.

The latest tech gadget or a dinner divine?: 一盒巧克力或一瓶红酒?

The gadget is an instrument used in surgery.: 这个小器械是一种外科手术的工具.

This gadget isn't much good.: 这小机械没什么用处.

The gadget will lighten the goods you burden.: 这个装置会减轻你背负货物的重量.

Cigarettes are the newest to take part in becoming just another gadget.: 最新加入进来的又一电子小玩意是香烟.

The doctor, who is something of a gadget freak, was equipped for any contingency.: 这位爱好小器械成癖的医生备有应付任何突发状况的装备.

A corkscrew is a very useful gadget for opening bottles of wine.: 瓶塞钻是很好用的开酒瓶工具.

It's possible your body emits radiation that makes any gadget within three feet go haywire.: 你的身体很可能有一种辐射,让任何接近你三尺之内的机器都失灵.

The gadget can be attached to any vertical surface.: 这小玩意儿可以粘在任何垂直表面上。

The gadget is used to artificially inseminate cows.: 这个器具被用来为母牛实施人工授精。

The gadget can be attached to any vertical or near vertical surface.: 该装置可以装在任何垂直或近似垂直的平面上。

考试真题

He stood out in three ways－as a technologist, as a corporate （公司的）leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets.

Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

Meanwhile, the number of consumers hungry for such gadgets continues to swell.

He invented lots of functional gadgets

His keen interest in designing elegant and user-friendly gadgets.

Roughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless gadget may be turning friends away from your home.

Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year – or the year before, even.

It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

Time away from all electronic gadgets.

It stands in sharp contrast to Sanchez, this other gadget, a gas powered flame we killer, invented in 1997.