horse power

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[计] 马力 [经] 马力

词形变化

horse powers 复数

1.

Any of a class of machines that used draft horses as a source of power to an output shaft or sheave. Treadmill types and merry-go-round–like types existed.

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In that era, they powered their corn sheller and their thresher with a horse power.
2.

Alternative spelling of horsepower (“unit of power equaling 745 watts or similar figure”).

古体
3.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: motive effort supplied by one or more horses.

In the 1920s through 1940s, the push for power farming aimed to replace horse power with tractor power on the farm.

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