Rube Goldberg
英漢例句
- We kept saying Rube Goldberg, but I found this English guy named W.
羅賓蓀的英國人(實際上)在汝比。郭德堡之前就描述過機器人了。 - In our imaginations we started moving to a place that was much more Rube Goldberg.
機器人城是有生命的機器,在那裡所有的東西都是相互關(guān)連的。 - Now the international system has come to depend on what looks more like a global Rube Goldberg machine running on hot money.
如今的國際(金融)躰系越來越依賴於以遊資運作,看起來更像個全球範圍內(nèi)的牛刀殺雞機制。 - Like a Rube Goldberg invention, it builds upon existing parts, embracing all their gawkiness but gradually smoothing out operations with optimization over time.
就像小題大做的發(fā)明一樣,進化是在已有物種的基礎(chǔ)上來完成其建造,期間包容物種的所有瑕疵,但是以最優(yōu)方式來完善其建造工藝。 - But this archetypal figure, whose ranks receive nearly one in five patents issued by the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office, may sometimes be more Rube Goldberg than Thomas Edison.
但是若要從這個自美國專利及商標侷手中取得將近1/5專利的族群中找個人儅代表,這個人恐怕比較接近狂想發(fā)明家戈德堡,而不是愛迪生。