核心畫面

One before-and-after picture holds this word. Before: people and animals doing the work with their own bodies, walking, lifting, cutting. After: machines doing the same work, with the people now beside them or riding in them. Mechanized is the label for the after picture, and it says nothing by itself about whether the change was welcome.

這個字可以想成一組前後對照的照片。前面那張:人和牲口用自己的身體做事,走路、搬、割。後面那張:同樣的事由機器來做,人更多收起這個字可以想成一組前後對照的照片。前面那張:人和牲口用自己的身體做事,走路、搬、割。後面那張:同樣的事由機器來做,人站在機器旁邊,或者坐在機器上。mechanized 就是貼在後面那張照片上的標籤。這個字本身不評價這個改變是好是壞,那要另外用句子說。

Two branches

工作換機器做

這一組就是核心畫面本身,用在工廠、農場和各種流程上。

adjective · B2

Describing work, a system or a process that is now done by machines instead of by people or animals.

機械化的

部隊換車輛走

同一個改變換了舞台:原本靠雙腳走路的部隊,現在坐在有裝甲的車上移動。人力換成機器,道理和工廠裡那一層一樣。

adjective · C1

Describing an army unit that moves in tanks and other armoured vehicles rather than on foot.

機械化(部隊)