| 单词 | machine for living |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmachine for living (in) c. figurative. [French machine à habiter (‘Le Corbusier’ Vers une Architecture (1923) p. ix), translated in quot. 1927, is after e.g. machine à écrire typewriter (1903), machine à carder carding-machine (1801): compare machine à vivre, used of the body in Tolstoy, War and Peace (a1869).] machine for living (in): a house or other habitation considered as a functional entity. Also in imitative phrases. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] houseeOE homeOE houseOE roofa1382 housinga1400 bike1508 dwelling-house1530 firehouse1530 standing house?1532 mansion house1533 maisonc1540 beinga1616 smoke-housea1687 drum1846 khazi1846 casa1859 shack1910 kipsie1916 machine for living (in)1927 1927 tr. ‘Le Corbusier’ Towards New Archit. 4 The house is a machine for living in. 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 132 Le Corbusier himself could hardly have done the trick better: King's is the perfect machine-for-praying-in. 1960 R. W. Marks Dymaxion World Buckminster Fuller 22/1 The house was actually the world's first tangible embodiment of what one French architect hopefully designated as a ‘Machine-for-Living’. 1966 ‘J. Melville’ Nell Alone vii. 75 The whole house was..a machine for Mrs Richier to live in. 1990 D. Cruickshank & N. Burton Life in Georgian City ii. ii. 96/1 Georgian town houses probably worked fairly well as machines for living. < as lemmas |
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