Rube Goldberg

常见例句

• 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。
• "Each person is, in fact, a Rube Goldberg sort of organism pieced together by biology and made up of good parts, bad parts and parts that are inconsequential.
  我们每个人都是一个精密复杂的有机体。我们身上既有好的器官也有不好的器官，甚至还有令人匪夷所思的器官。
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