gear

英 [ɡɪə(r)] 美 [ɡɪr]

• n. 传动装置；齿轮；排挡；工具；装备
• v. 调整；使适应于；以齿轮连起

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]用具,设备; 衣服

   equipment, clothing, etc. needed for an expedition, a sport, etc.

2. [P]齿轮; 传动装置; (排)挡

   set of toothed wheels which fit into another set to transmit power from a vehicle's engine to its road wheels

v. (动词)

1. vt. 换挡

   change a part of a machine which has a special use in controlling a vehicle

2. vt. ＆ vi. (使)搭配; (使)适合

   adjust one thing to the working of another; make dependence on

3. vt. 使兴奋起来; 使准备好

   put especially oneself into a state of excited or anxious expectation about an activity

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 衣服
2. 传动装置
3. 工具；设备；用具；家用器具
4. 马具
5. 装置
6. 财物；动产
7. 排档
8. 帆具
9. 起落架；着陆装置
10. 【机】齿轮；齿链
11. 甲胄与武器

v. 动词

1. 使准备好；为…做好准备
2. 用齿轮使联动
3. 搭上齿轮；把齿轮装上；使扣上齿轮
4. （使）啮合
5. 开始工作；协调地工作
6. 准备好，安排好
7. 适应；适合；一致
8. 开动（机器）
9. 给...装上马具；给...套上轭具
10. 调整，使适合，使适应
11. 使与…相适应；使适合于
12. 使兴奋起来
13. 搭配；安排

英英释义

Noun:

1. a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

2. wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed;

   "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain"
   

3. a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)

4. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

Verb:

1. set the level or character of;

   "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Careless use of the clutch may damage the gears.
   离合器使用不慎可能损坏传动装置。
2. The gear just would not come unstuck.
   齿轮就是松不开来。
3. The car has four forward gear and one reverse gear.
   那汽车有四个前进挡和一个倒挡。
4. Lifting electromagnet is a kind of lifting gear.
   起重电磁铁是起重工具的一种。
5. Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence.
   数以百计的警察身披防暴装备，奋力镇压暴乱。
6. We need to sort out our camping gear before we go away.
   我们需要在离开前把我们野营用的装备准备好。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Education should be geared to the children's needs and abilities.
   教育应适应儿童的需要和能力。
2. We had to gear our lives to the new changes .
   我们必须使我们的生活适应新的变化。
3. The teeth of the wheels gear into each other .
   这些轮子的齿互相啮合。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. They put the hunting gear into the boat.
   他们把打猎工具放在小船上。
2. This large gear turns the small one.
   这个大齿轮带动那个小齿轮。
3. A car can't go unless it is in gear.
   汽车若不把传动机构联系好就不能开动。
4. Tom changed gear and he won the game at last.
   汤姆突然加速最后赢得了比赛。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The cogs gear smoothly.
   齿轮啮合得很好。
2. The teeth of the wheels gear into each other.
   轮齿相互啮合。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. His political opponents are gearing themselves for national elections in October.
   他的政敌们正在为10月份大选做准备。

经典引文

• Peasants in their homely gear.

  出自： Wordsworth

• Prince William..starts new fashions in toddler gear.

  出自：Daily Mail

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

out of gear

没上排挡; 运转不灵活,出了毛病not connected to the gear; not working well

用作动词 (v.)

gear down (v.+adv.)

减弱…的压力〔难度〕; 降低…的水平 reduce the force or level of (sth)
gear down
He geared down as he came into the corner.

他到拐角处放慢了速度。
You have to gear down when you drive uphill.

上坡行驶时必须换慢挡。 gear sth ⇔ down
The courses have been geared down to lower ability of students in these special classes.

在这些特殊班里,由于学生能力低,课程的难度已降低了。

gear to (v.+prep.)

调整(某物)使其适合… arrange (sth) so as to make it suitable for (sth or sb)
gear sth to sth
We must gear the amount of products to the level of public demand.

我们必须使产品数量适合公众要求的水平。
We have to gear our lives to the new changes.

我们必须使自己的生活适应新的变化。
Education should be geared to the children's needs and abilities.

教育应适应儿童的需要和能力。

gear up (v.+adv.)

使做好行动准备 prepare (sth or sb) for action
gear up
When you are going fast enough, you'll be able to gear up.

车开得足够快时,你就能换挡加速。 gear sth ⇔ up
The directors decided to gear the factory up for increased production, by bringing in new machine.

为了适应增产的需要,董事们决定引进新机器。 gear up
The Department is gearing up for increased intake of students.

这个系正在为扩大招生做好准备。 gear sb/sth ⇔ up
The party is all geared up for the forthcoming election campaign.

该党为即将来临的竞选活动已完全做好了准备。
I was geared up to have an argument about it and then she said it didn't matter anyhow.

我已准备好跟她辩论那事,可是她却说不管怎样都没什么关系了。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• change〔shift〕 gear(s) 换挡
• keep all the gear in 把所有衣物放在…
• load the gear into 把工具装上…
• strip gears 折断齿轮的齿

形容词+～

• fishing〔hunting〕 gear 渔〔猎〕具
• homely gear 朴素的衣服
• low〔high, top〕 gear 低〔高〕速挡

名词+～

• bottom gear 头挡
• drive gear 传动齿轮
• horse gear 马具

介词+～

• in gear 搭上齿轮,在正常运转中,处于正常状态,健全的
• into gear 搭上齿轮,进入正常运转,进入工作状态
• out of gear 齿轮脱开,运转不正常,脱节

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• gear highly 高度兴奋
• gear mechanically 机械地搭配
• gear scientifically 科学地搭配
• gear down 换慢挡,减少
• gear up 换快挡,促进,提高,使准备好

～+介词

• gear into each other 相互啮合
• gear to 加以调解使适合

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. gear用作名词的意思是“齿轮; (汽车的)排挡”,转化为动词意思是“换挡”,引申可表示“(使)搭配,(使)适合”“使兴奋起来,使准备好”。
2. gear可用作及物动词或不及物动词,用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语。
3. gear后接副词down表示“换低挡; 降低水平”; 后接副词up表示“换高档; 使准备好”; 后接介词to表示“调整…使适合”。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

gear up for, gear up to

• 这组短语都可指“准备”,只是前者比后者更常用。

词源解说

• ☆ 1200年左右进入英语，直接源自古挪威语的gervi，意为准备，装饰。

近反义词

【近义词】

• clothes
• flywheel
• tools
• toothed wheel