apparatus: [17] Etymologically, apparatus is ‘equipment that has been prepared for a particular use’. The word is borrowed from Latin apparātus, the past participle of the compound verb apparāre, formed from the prefix ad- and parāre ‘make ready’ (source of prepare ‘make ready in advance’, and related to parent). At the beginning of the 17th century, the related but anglicized form apparate put in a brief appearance in the language (possibly borrowed from French apparat), but within 20 years apparatus had supplanted it. => parent, prepare
apparatus (n.)
1620s, from Latin apparatus "tools, implements, equipment; preparation, a preparing," noun of state from past participle stem of apparare "prepare," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + parare "make ready" (see pare).
实用例句
1. They lacked the scientific personnel to develop the technical apparatus much further.
他们缺少能够进一步研发这一技术装置的科研人员。来自柯林斯例句
2. a piece of laboratory apparatus
一件实验室仪器来自《权威词典》
3. A nuclear reactor is the apparatus in which atoms are split.
核反应堆是分裂原子的装置.来自《简明英汉词典》
4. I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
呼吸器上的管子脱落时,我差点给憋死.来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The breathing apparatus includes the nose, throat and lungs.
