engineer

英 [ˌendʒɪˈnɪə(r)]

美 [ˌendʒɪˈnɪr]

n.  工程师; 设计师; 机修工; 技师; 技工; (船上的)轮机手; (飞机上的)机械师
v.  密谋策划; 设计制造; 改变…的基因(或遗传)结构

复数：engineers　过去分词：engineered　过去式：engineered　现在分词：engineering　第三人称单数：engineers　

中考高考CET4CET6考研IELTS

Oxford 3000 / Collins.3 / BNC.1889 / COCA.1997

牛津词典

noun

• 工程师；设计师
  a person whose job involves designing and building engines, machines, roads, bridges, etc.
• 机修工；技师；技工
  a person who is trained to repair machines and electrical equipment
  1. They're sending an engineer to fix the phone.
     他们要派一名技师来安装电话。
• （船上的）轮机手；（飞机上的）机械师
  a person whose job is to control and repair engines, especially on a ship or an aircraft
• （船上的）轮机手；（飞机上的）机械师
  a person whose job is to control and repair engines, especially on a ship or an aircraft
• 工兵
  a soldier trained to design and build military structures

verb

• 密谋策划
  to arrange for sth to happen or take place, especially when this is done secretly in order to give yourself an advantage
  1. She engineered a further meeting with him.
     她精心安排又和他见了一面。
• 设计制造
  to design and build sth
  1. The car is beautifully engineered and a pleasure to drive.
     这辆汽车设计完美，工艺精良，开起来过瘾。
• 改变…的基因（或遗传）结构
  to change the genetic structure of sth
  1. genetically engineered crops
     转基因农作物

柯林斯词典

• See also:chemical engineercivil engineerelectrical engineersound engineer
• N-COUNT 机械修理工;电气修理工；技师
  Anengineeris a person who repairs mechanical or electrical devices.
  1. They send a service engineer to fix the disk drive.
     他们派出维修人员来修磁盘驱动器。
• （船上的）轮机手
  Anengineeris a person who is responsible for maintaining the engine of a ship while it is at sea.
• VERB 设计制造（车辆、桥梁、建筑物等）
  When a vehicle, bridge, or buildingis engineered, it is planned and constructed using scientific methods.
  1. Many of Kuwait's spacious freeways were engineered by W S Atkins.
     科威特有很多宽阔的高速公路是阿特金斯集团设计建造的。
  2. ...the car's better designed and engineered rivals.
     比那款轿车的设计和制造更为精良的竞争车型
• VERB （巧妙或间接地）安排，筹划
  If youengineeran event or situation, you arrange for it to happen, in a clever or indirect way.
  1. He could stand no more and engineered an escape...
     他无法再忍受，便策划了出逃。
  2. This boom has been engineered by the Chancellor for short-term political reasons.
     这片繁荣景象是总理为了短期政治利益而精心安排的。

英英释义

noun

• a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
  Synonym:applied scientisttechnologist
• the operator of a railway locomotive
  Synonym:locomotive engineerrailroad engineerengine driver

verb

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
  1. he masterminded the robbery
  Synonym:masterminddirectorganizeorganiseorchestrate
• design as an engineer
  1. He engineered the water supply project

双语例句

• He could stand no more and engineered an escape
  他无法再忍受，便策划了出逃。
• He elected to become an engineer.
  他决定当工程师。
• An engineer tried to detonate the mine.
  一名工程师试图引爆地雷。
• A talk was given by an engineer of this wonderful device.
  一位工程师作了一次关于这个奇妙装置的报告。
• Many of Kuwait's spacious freeways were engineered by W S Atkins.
  科威特有很多宽阔的高速公路是阿特金斯集团设计建造的。
• The product is still only a gleam in an engineer's eye.
  该产品还只是工程师头脑中尚未成形的想法。
• The engineer pronounced the machine to be out of order.
  工程师说这台机器坏了。
• The daughter of a railway engineer, she at first had a somewhat nomadic childhood.
  作为一个铁路工程师的女儿，她最初的童年生活有些漂泊不定。
• The engineer explained the main points of the technical problem over again.
  工程师把那个技术问题的重点重新讲一遍。
• He was born at Aberdare in South Wales, the son of a mining engineer.
  他出生在南威尔士的阿伯德尔，是一位采矿工程师的儿子。