Rube Goldberg
英汉例句
- We kept saying Rube Goldberg, but I found this English guy named W.
罗宾荪的英国人(实际上)在汝比。郭德堡之前就描述过机器人了。 - In our imaginations we started moving to a place that was much more Rube Goldberg.
机器人城是有生命的机器,在那里所有的东西都是相互关连的。 - Now the international system has come to depend on what looks more like a global Rube Goldberg machine running on hot money.
如今的国际(金融)体系越来越依赖于以游资运作,看起来更像个全球范围内的牛刀杀鸡机制。 - Like a Rube Goldberg invention, it builds upon existing parts, embracing all their gawkiness but gradually smoothing out operations with optimization over time.
就像小题大做的发明一样,进化是在已有物种的基础上来完成其建造,期间包容物种的所有瑕疵,但是以最优方式来完善其建造工艺。 - But this archetypal figure, whose ranks receive nearly one in five patents issued by the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office, may sometimes be more Rube Goldberg than Thomas Edison.
但是若要从这个自美国专利及商标局手中取得将近1/5专利的族群中找个人当代表,这个人恐怕比较接近狂想发明家戈德堡,而不是爱迪生。