高考Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics, put it this way: if we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere.

控制论领域的创始人诺伯特·维纳（Norbert Wiener）是这样说的：如果我们为了达到我们的目的而使用一个我们无法有效干预其运作的机械机构。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development

2010年，机械工程师学会根据与当前和预计经济发展阶段相关的特征，确定了世界上三个主要的新兴人口群体

2013年12月阅读原文

六级In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development.

2010年，机械工程师学会根据与当前和预计经济发展阶段相关的特征，确定了世界上三个主要的新兴人口群体。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both d

在他的案例研究室，拉尔夫·拉普森（Ralph Rapson）可能错误预测了机械革命对日常生活的影响。很少有美国家庭获得了直升机，尽管大多数家庭最终获得了干衣机，但他认为自给自足的信念是错误的

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研For example,the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

例如，“长今基金会”作为其旗舰项目，设计了一个机械时钟，用于设计数千年的时间。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Rather than adding other metals, they developed a complex mechanical process involving repeated heating and very severe mechanical deformation, known as temp-forming.

他们没有添加其他金属，而是开发了一个复杂的机械过程，包括反复加热和非常严重的机械变形，称为温度成形。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them.

就大学而言，自1985年以来，化学、机械、工业和冶金专业的毕业生数量有所减少(冶金的) 工程师，部分是为了应对制造业角色的减少，成为他们的大雇主。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Where Food Waste Happens In 2010, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development.

食物浪费的发生地

2013年12月六级考试真题（二）

四级The early trains were impractical curiosities, and for a long time the railroad companies met with troublesome mechanical problems.

早期的火车是不切实际的珍品，很长一段时间以来，铁路公司都遇到了麻烦的机械问题。

1991年1月英语四级真题

四级If we wish to survive in either for any length of time, we need to have mechanical aids.

如果我们想在任何一种情况下生存一段时间，我们都需要机械辅助。

2005年12月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级However, even with the development of computers and robotics, there’re always plenty of boring, repetitive and mechanical jobs and lots of unskilled people who have to do them.

然而，即使随着计算机和机器人技术的发展，也总是有很多无聊、重复和机械的工作，还有很多非技术人员不得不做这些工作。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

考研Leonardo da Vinci conceive the first mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix,” which could carry man straight up, but was only a design and was never tested.

列奥纳多·达·芬奇发明了第一种机械装置，称为“螺旋”，它可以把人直接抬起来，但这只是一种设计，从未经过测试。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, the American worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology.

考虑到这种乐观的技术创新方法，美国工人很容易接受机械技术所需的那种特殊的非语言思维。

1996年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研While often praised by foreigners for its emphasis on the basics, Japanese education tends to stress test taking and mechanical learning over creativity and self-expression.

虽然日本教育经常因其对基础知识的重视而受到外国人的赞扬，但日本教育往往强调应试和机械学习，而不是创造力和自我表达。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.

如果科学家们还没有创造出科幻小说的机械版本，那么他们已经开始接近了。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction.

我们的银行业务是在自动柜员机终端完成的，这些终端以机械的礼貌感谢我们的交易。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题