You can picture a machine sitting inside a vehicle that turns fuel into push — the part that actually makes the power and drives everything forward.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'ingenium' (natural ability, cleverness, an ingenious device); an engine was first a clever contrivance, and the modern sense narrowed to the power-making machine.
源自拉丁文 ingenium，原指「巧思、精巧的裝置」。早期 engine 泛指任何巧妙的機械裝置，後來才收窄成「製造動力的機器」這個現代核心。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'engine'
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原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
enginenoun/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/
- 1
A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Their warlike Engins and munition Exceed the forces of their martial men.
- 2
archaicA tool; a utensil or implement.
- Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine, they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
- What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?
- 3
A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- 4
A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- In France, the parliament soon became a mere engine in the hands of a few high-born and ambitious men, who had nothing in common with its interests, which were those of the people.
- 5
The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- 6
A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- 7
A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- 8
computingengineeringmathematicsA software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- a graphics engine
- a physics engine
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteIngenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
- 10
obsoleteThe result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
- Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Againſt his praiſe to ſtirre vp enmitye [...].
- 11
obsoleteNatural talent; genius.
- 12
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- [...] their promiſes, entiſements, oathes, tokens, and all theſe engines of luſt [...].
- You ſee the ways the Fiſher-man doth take / To catch the Fiſh; what Engins doth he make?
engineverb/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/
- 1
datedTo equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
- Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
- 2
obsoleteTo assault with an engine.
- to engine and batter our walls
- 3
obsoleteTo contrive; to put into action.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。