machine that goes "ping"

短语

发音

US

词形变化

machines that go "ping" 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A piece of medical equipment, especially a bedside monitor; particularly one perceived as superfluous.

    幽默 非正式

词源

Coined in the movie Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), in a sketch depicting a group of doctors at a birth more interested in the technological equipment than the mother and baby. The eponymous machine serves no apparent purpose except making an occasional ping sound.

来源：wiktionary