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1·Who invented the steam engine?

谁发明了蒸汽机？《牛津词典》

2·In 1941, the train would have been pulled by a steam engine.

1941年，火车可能已由蒸汽机车来牵引了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.

法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。

4·This was to occur with progress in the development of the steam engine.

这是随着蒸汽机的发展进步而发生的。

5·The coal-fired steam engine was taking over, and the waterwheel was fast becoming obsolete.

烧煤的蒸汽机开始占领市场，于是水车很快就过时了。

6·He thereby transformed an inefficient pump of limited use into a steam engine of a thousand uses.

因此，他将应用范围有限且效率低的蒸汽泵改造成了应用范围广泛的蒸汽发动机。

7·Since the steam engine was fired by coal, the large mills did not need to be located by rivers, as had mills that used water-driven machines.

由于蒸汽机是靠燃煤来驱动的，因此一些大型棉纺织厂就不再像那些使用水力驱动机器的工厂一样，必须依河而建。

8·However, the arrival of the steam engine initiated a complete transformation in rail transportation, entrenching and expanding the Industrial Revolution.

然而，蒸汽机的出现引发了铁路运输的彻底变革，并巩固和拓展了工业革命的成果。

9·By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.

到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。

10·A rotary engine attached to the steam engine enabled shafts to be turned and machines to be driven, resulting in mills using steam power to spin and weave cotton.

连接在蒸汽机上的旋转式发动机使轴承转动，机器得以驱动，从而使得利用蒸汽动力纺线和织布的工厂出现。