engineer
engineer
noun
[with obj.]
noun
- a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works
工程师；技师；机械师
■a person who controls an engine, especially on an aircraft or ship
（尤指飞机、轮船上的）机师；轮机员
■(N. Amer.)a train driver
(北美)火车司机
■a skilful contriver or originator of something
策划者；设计者；发明者
the prime engineer of the approach.
这种方法的主要策划者。
[with obj.]
- design and build (a machine or structure)
设计（机器，建筑）；建造
the men who engineered the tunnel.
设计隧道的人们。
■skilfully or artfully arrange for (an event or situation) to occur
精心安排（事件，情景）；策划
she engineered another meeting with him.
她巧妙安排，又和他会了一次面。
■modify (an organism) by manipulating its genetic material
改造（有机体）的基因，基因工程
[as adj., with submodifier]genetically engineered plants.
转基因植物。
- Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare 'contrive, devise', from Latin ingenium (see engine); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium, with the ending influenced by -eer
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