gizmos

英

美 [ˈgɪzmoʊz]

n.  小玩意儿; 小装置
gizmo的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小玩意儿；小装置
  Agizmois a device or small machine which performs a particular task, usually in a new and efficient way. People often usegizmoto refer to a device or machine when they do not know what it is really called.
  1. ...a plastic gizmo for holding a coffee cup on the dashboard.
     汽车仪表盘上放咖啡杯的塑料装置

双语例句

• If you want to push interest rates even lower, you could for instance put expiry dates on banknotes, possibly in electronic form, since modern banknotes are full of technical gizmos.
  如果你想继续下调利率，你可以，例如，给钞票附上有效期（可能以电子形式），因为现代钞票充满着技术发明。
• Among other things, there's a move away from technologically sophisticated in-car gizmos like a solar-powered cooling system designed for the new Prius.
  其他方面，丰田章男可能会摒弃那些技术复杂的车内小革新，例如为新款普瑞斯（Prius）设计的太阳能冷却系统。
• It will no doubt spur newer, smaller, and cheaper web gizmos.
  无疑还将激励人们发明出功能更新、体积更。
• The result was a great many magical gizmos ( iPad, anyone?)
  结果留给我们一大堆神奇的电子用品（比如iPad），但以自己动手为特征的DIY活动却就此式微。
• The bulky files that generally fill portable gizmos are likely to live on the removable card rather than in main storage, anyway.
  在可移动设备上使用的一些大文件大都保存在可移走的卡上，而不是放在主存上。
• American consumers have a curious, and uneasy, relationship with China: US jobs get outsourced to Chinese factories but, then again, the latter do churn out decent gizmos at low prices.
  美国消费者与中国之间有一层奇特而又尴尬的关系：美国的就业岗位外包到中国的工厂，后者生产出一些不错的小东西，而且价格低廉。
• I smile as I think of our computer and the other gizmos that are supposed to inspire creativity, but actually require little of a child's imagination.
  当想到电脑和一些其他的所谓激发创意的小玩意时，我不禁笑了，这些东西对孩子们想象力的发展实际上真是毫无帮助。
• In effect, LTE patents permeate nearly every aspect of popular consumer gizmos and services.
  事实上，LTE专利几乎涉及到热门消费设备和服务的方方面面。
• Device makers rush to get new gizmos into action before cost-benefit analyses can be done.
  而设备制造商往往是在进行成本收益分析前就将他们的小发明推向市场。
• As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.
  人类创造的结果是，现代社会有了越来越多的智能装置，虽然我们几乎都注意不到它们，但它们的普遍存在却节省了许多人类劳动。