運作的機制
把工廠那套互相咬合、一環推一環的畫面搬到政府或組織上：流程、單位、規則接在一起運轉，也就成了一部機器。
system or process · noun · C1
a system or set of processes for doing something, especially in a government or organization.
機制；機構
核心畫面
One way to hold it: the whole works, not one machine. Stand in a factory and look — belts, arms, wheels, all turning together as one big thing. The -ery ending collects them into a single mass noun, and that same picture gets lent to any large system whose parts grind along together.
可以想成整片運轉的機器，而不是某一台。站在工廠裡看過去：輸送帶、機械手臂、輪子，全部一起轉。-ery 這個字尾把它們…更多收起
可以想成整片運轉的機器，而不是某一台。站在工廠裡看過去：輸送帶、機械手臂、輪子，全部一起轉。-ery 這個字尾把它們收成一個不可數的整體，所以英文說 a lot of machinery，不說 two machineries。這個「一整套一起運轉」的畫面，也被借去講制度和組織。From the picture
Also in this word
machines in general · noun · B1
machines in general, especially large ones used in factories or on farms.
機械；機器（總稱）
internal parts of a machine · noun · B2
the parts inside a machine that make it work.
機件；內部機件
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
machinerynoun/məˈʃiːnəɹi/
- 1
The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
- The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.
- One or two wondered then, as if suddenly recalling the outlander, how he would manage, or if he would perish, up there among his unholy modern machineries that puffed out frozen steam to store the deer meat and shot fowl for him, […] "And there were big boxes lugged up there, done up in iron clasps. Cruel-cold earth in those." […] "Like corpse boxes," someone else suggested, down in the half-light, snug fust of the village drinking shop.
- 2
The working parts of a machine as a group.
- 3
The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
- All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.
- Since the three histone-fold domain amino acids are located at the surface of the α-helix 2 domain that is responsible for the formation of H3-H4 dimers and accessible in prenucleosomal complexes, it has been suggested that the specificity associated with these amino acid positions derives from interactions with different assembly or post-translational-modification machineries.
- 4
The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。