turbine: [19] Latin turbō denoted ‘whirl’, ‘whirling thing’, or ‘whirlwind’, and also ‘spinning-top’ (it was related to turba ‘disturbance, crowd’, source of English disturb, trouble, etc). From it around 1824 was coined French turbine, applied originally to a revolving wheel on an axis, driven by water-pressure. It was borrowed into English in the early 1840s. => disturb, trouble
turbine (n.)
1838, from French turbine (19c.), from Latin turbinem (nominative turbo) "spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls," related to turba "turmoil, crowd" (see turbid). Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water. Turbo in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904.
实用例句
1. Damage to the turbine slowed the work down.
涡轮机的损坏降低了工作的效率。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The spinning turbine creates a vacuum.
旋转的涡轮形成了一块真空区域。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps.
这项工作包括快速建起堤坝和安装涡轮水泵.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The gas turbine feeds on the fuel it pumps.
这台燃气轮机以它抽入的燃料为能源.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5. A disadvantage of the turbine is that it is not reversible.
