megamachine

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very large or powerful machine (or computer).
    — In the early days of the Large Hadron Collider, when the megamachine kept running into seemingly endless, and increasingly improbable, financial and technical snags, some researchers—calling these mishaps “anti-miracles”—even half-seriously proposed that the universe was censoring us from this sort of destruction of the world occasioned by a successful run of the collider.
  2. The convergence of science, economy, technics, and political power.
    — The megamachine, as he termed it, engendered a bogus existence—material, intellectual and spiritual—that reduced human endeavor to a series of ciphers.

词形变化

megamachines plural

词源

From mega- + machine. In the social science sense coined by American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic Lewis Mumford.
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