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.
中文解释
1、涡轮发动机，涡扇发动机、涡喷发动机。2、turbin- + -e.3. 音译“透平机”。
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.