In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life – few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers – but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.
在他的案例研究住宅中，拉尔夫·拉普森可能错误地预测了机械革命将如何影响日常生活——很少有美国家庭拥有直升机，尽管大多数最终都拥有了干衣机——但他认为自给自足既是可取的也是不可避免的，这一信念在当时被广泛认同。
Mechanical devices were widely used.
机械装置被广泛使用。
For example, the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
例如，Long Now 基金会将其旗舰项目定为一座机械钟，它被设计为在数千年后仍能继续计时。
He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization, but practical.
他是新罕布什尔州一所高中的教师，那里的学习不是书本、考试和机械记忆的事情，而是实践性的。
mechanical memorization
机械记忆
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。