| 释义 |
waldo, Waldo|ˈwɔːldəʊ|
Pl. waldos, waldoes.
[f. the name of Waldo F. Jones, the inventor of such gadgets in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein (see quot. 1942).]
A device for handling or manipulating objects by remote control.
1942‘A. MacDonald’ (R. A. Heinlein) in Astounding Sci. Fiction 9 Aug. 16 Even the..humanoid gadgets known universally as ‘waldoes’..passed through several generations of development..in Waldo's machine shop before he redesigned them for mass production. The first of them..had been designed to enable Waldo to operate a metal lathe. 1966I. Asimov Fantastic Voyage vii. 75 A handling device (a gigantic ‘waldo’—so named by the earlier nuclear technicians from a character in a science fiction story of the 1940s). 1978D. A. Stanwood Memory of Eva Ryker iii. 30 The bathyscaphs are both equipped with remote manipulators—the experts call them ‘Waldos’ —for working under the extreme pressure. |