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单词 machine age
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Definition of machine age in English:

machine age

noun
  • The period in the early 20th century notable for the development of new technology and industrial processes.

    at the peak of the machine age, factories were emblems of human might
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The machine age brought mass production and distribution, together with a new sense of internationalism.
    • It evokes an image of a ship, a quintessential machine age symbol, in its streamlined aluminum railings.
    • Some nationalists looked back to a rural paradise, while the Italian Futurists celebrated the machine age.
    • Prior to the machine age, all cabinet makers used hand tools, such as planers and saws.
    • The glories of the machine age were not accepted unconditionally.
    • The Vorticists rejected the traditional genres of portraiture and still-life and instead looked to the modern machine age for inspiration.
    • The idea of a job, born with the machine age, is changing beyond all recognition.
    • Architecture was to be revolutionary and international; past forms were rejected in favour of the forms of the so-called machine age.
    • Members of this group specialised in linocuts, producing bold, swirling images that conveyed the hectic pace of life in the machine age.
    • The destructive power of a war dominated by terrible mechanical weapons altered Lewis's attitude towards the machine age.
 
 

Definition of machine age in US English:

machine age

noun
  • The period in the early 20th century notable for the development of new technology and industrial processes.

    at the peak of the machine age, factories were emblems of human might
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The destructive power of a war dominated by terrible mechanical weapons altered Lewis's attitude towards the machine age.
    • It evokes an image of a ship, a quintessential machine age symbol, in its streamlined aluminum railings.
    • Some nationalists looked back to a rural paradise, while the Italian Futurists celebrated the machine age.
    • Members of this group specialised in linocuts, producing bold, swirling images that conveyed the hectic pace of life in the machine age.
    • Architecture was to be revolutionary and international; past forms were rejected in favour of the forms of the so-called machine age.
    • The glories of the machine age were not accepted unconditionally.
    • The idea of a job, born with the machine age, is changing beyond all recognition.
    • The Vorticists rejected the traditional genres of portraiture and still-life and instead looked to the modern machine age for inspiration.
    • The machine age brought mass production and distribution, together with a new sense of internationalism.
    • Prior to the machine age, all cabinet makers used hand tools, such as planers and saws.
 
 
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