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Meccano is a building toy. In the box you get metal (or later, plastic) strips, plates, wheels, and gears, and you join them with tiny nuts and bolts to make cranes, cars, bridges, and machines that can really move. It has been a famous children’s toy in the UK for generations; there often remember a tin of parts. Though actually, it started under another name, “Mechanics Made Easy”: the point was to let children feel how real machines fit together, not only to pretend. In the US a very similar toy is called an Erector set. Meccano is a brand, so it takes a capital M. Beside Lego it feels old-school. Lego bricks click; Meccano uses screws, so the models take longer and sit closer to real engineering.
Meccano（英國金屬螺絲組合玩具；美國類似的叫 Erector set）
組成From mechanics or mechano-. The product was originally called “Mechanics Made Easy.”
同家族的字
- mechanicsthe original idea — how machines are put together
- mechanicalsame mech- family, about machines
原始詞典資料1 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。
Meccanoname
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A brand of model construction system consisting of reusable metal strips, plates, girders, etc.
- The bottom was made up of plates, triangular—sort of triangular plates that fitted all together like a Meccano set […]
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。