prime mover

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
  2. A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
  3. Tractor unit. Or, more specifically, the front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
  4. A military or heavy construction vehicle. US
  5. A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
    — "I need not remind this audience that, though Professor Summerlee, as the head of the Committee of Investigation, has been put up to speak to-night, still it is I who am the real prime mover in this business, and that it is mainly to me that any successful result must be ascribed."

词形变化

prime movers plural

词源

Originally in translation of Latin primum mobile.
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