windmills

英 [ˈwɪnmɪlz]

美 [ˈwɪndˌmɪlz]

n.  风车磨房; (通过转动将风能转化为电能的)风车; 玩具风车
windmill的复数

柯林斯词典

• 风车磨坊；（风力发电的）风车
  Awindmillis a building with long pieces of wood on the outside which turn around as the wind blows and provide energy for a machine that crushes grain. Awindmillis also a similar structure that is used to convert the power of the wind into electricity.

双语例句

• Worn-out windmills standing alone in pastures
  牧场上破旧的风车孑然而立
• Windmills and solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to power a busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
  风车和太阳能电池很难生产足够的电力为繁忙追求经济利益的世界供电，像熔炉和蒸汽涡轮机那样。
• Windmills are a characteristic feature of the Mallorcan landscape
  风车是马略卡岛风光的一大特色。
• That day north wind roar, not many people in the streets, a seller of windmills from grandpa in business, a foreign women stepped forward, with the hand brush strokes, mean want to buy this windmill.
  那天北风呼啸，街上行人并不多，有一个卖风车的老爷爷在叫卖，有一位外国妇女走上前去，用手笔画，意思是想买这个风车。
• Early in the twentieth century, windmills were commonly used across the Great Plains to pump water and to generate electricity.
  世纪初，风车被普遍使用在大平原泵供水和发电。使用风力能源的新方式最终传播到世界各地。
• As Mr Obama said on Tuesday: We want to do it right. We want to do it carefully. But we don't want to tilt at windmills.
  正如奥巴马周二所说：我们希望把它做好，我们希望认真去做，但我们不想和风车作战。
• He has some reasonable causes, but most of the times fights with windmills.
  他有些理由还合乎情理，但多数时间他是凭空乱打乱斗。
• These windmills can create power without creating pollution.
  这些风车能够产生能源而不制造污染。
• But perhaps Cervantes is the right writer to emulate when tilting at windmills.
  但在向风车发起挑战时，或许塞万提斯正是合适的模仿对象。
• For centuries, farmers have used windmills to pump water, crush grain and perform other tasks.
  几个世界以来，农民们都使用风力碾磨机抽水，碾谷以及其它一些工作。