and mechanical systems like a wound watch, or the sun,
像上紧发条的手表那样的机械装置，或太阳，
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 37 The process of ageing

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

mechanical [mɪ'kænɪkəl] 词频2
adj. 机械的，机械学的;呆板的;体力的;手工操作的;
💡 mechan(machine)+ical(形容词后缀)→机械的；呆板的
"His mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer."
他的机械计算机是现代电子计算机的雏形.
近义：automatic, perfunctory, robot, robotic, rote, unconscious 反义：craft, hand, handy
watch [wɔtʃ] 词频1 词根: -tch
vt. 注视，注意;看守，监视;守候（机会等）;密切注意; n. 表;值夜，值班;看守，监视;值班人员; vi. 观看;注视;守候;看守;
"The police warned holidaymakers to be on the watch for car thieves."
警方提醒度假者提防偷车贼.
近义：notice, observe, twig, herd, monitor, picket 反义：neglect, overleap, overlook, pass, pretermit, slight
wound [wund] 词频2
n. 创伤;伤口;伤害; v. 伤;伤害;“wind”的过去式和过去分词;
💡 圆形(round)女人(w)受到了 创伤 网友：tom 补充：found发现 ， wound创伤，w（拼音）我 发现我受创伤
"Bathe the wound and apply a clean dressing."
清洗伤口，再用洁净敷料包扎。
近义：hurt, injure, lacerate, vulnerate, delacerate, bruise
systems
n. 体制, 体系；制度；系统（system的复数形式）

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheese-makers.
有时同当地牧师 （他通常和他的教民一样穷）住在一起，有时同牧羊人或制乳酪的人住在一起。
and without giving any consideration to the effects produced on the individuals and on their descendants by the artificial mode of existence imposed by the factory.
工厂把一种人为的生存方式强加给工人，却不顾及这种生存方式给工人及其后代带来的影响。
Another patient might equally well complain that her neighbours were combining to slander her and persecute her,
另有一位病人可能同样有理由抱怨说，她的邻居们正在联合起来对她进行诽谤和迫害，
but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another,
只知道一种药对一种病有好处，肯定对另一种病也会有好处。
they would not be so hurt,
那么他们就不会那样伤心，
Although an ocean wave gives the impression of a wall of water moving in your direction,
虽然，海浪给人的印象是一堵由水组成的墙向你压过来，