fire engine

读音

• /faɪə(ɹ).ɛn.dʒɪn/ Australia · 英國
• /faɪɚ.ɛn.dʒɪn/

释义

1. 消防車

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   A fire aboard TfW 175007, working a Holyhead-Cardiff Central service on February 8, closed the A483 road while five fire engines from Wrexham, Deeside, and Cheshire attended the scene.

   2月8日，运行在霍利希德-加的夫中央铁路的 TfW 175007 号列车发生火灾，导致A483公路关闭，来自雷克瑟姆、迪赛德和柴郡的五辆消防车赶赴现场。

   2023年 3月22日，「Network News: Class 175s withdrawn for safety checks after fires」，收錄於RAIL，979期，13頁：

2. steam engine (“蒸汽机”)之同義詞

   steam engine 的词形 archaic · form-of

   archaic · form-of

   A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.

   斯米顿在他的便携式蒸汽机锅炉中也采用了与此类似的设计。

   1844，William Pole，A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine - Parts 1-3，110頁：

   In the same year a very compact arrangement for a stationary fire engine was described by Mr. Wm. Baddeley, in which he proposed it should be worked like a capstan by means of handspikes, and it could be bolted down to a ship's deck, or fastened wherever wanted.

   同年，威廉·巴德利先生描述了一种非常紧凑的固定式蒸汽机装置，他建议这种蒸汽机应该像绞盘一样通过手推杆进行操作，并且可以用螺栓固定在船的甲板上，或固定在任何需要的地方。

   1866，Charles Frederick T. Young，Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades: With a History of Manual and Steam Fire Engines，93頁：

   This discovery gave a great impulse to mechanical ingenuity, and many schemes were contrived to make this new agent available as a motive power; but the first of these projects that appears to have been of any avail was the fire engine of Captain Tomas Savery, who produced a vacuum by condensing steam in close vessels, and then applied the vacuum so obtained to the elevation of water.

   这一发现极大地推动了机械创新，人们设计了许多方案，试图将这种新动力转化为可用的动力；但这些项目中第一个似乎有用的是托马斯·塞维利上尉的蒸汽机，他通过在密闭容器中冷凝蒸汽来产生真空，然后将由此产生的真空用来提升水位。

   1868，John Bourne，A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture，第4頁：