manual adj. 1.手的,手作的,手工的,用手操作的;便于手头应用的。 2.【法律】现有的。 manual labour 手工劳动。 a manual worker 体力劳动者。 the manual alphabet (聋哑人用的)手语字母。 a manual fire-engine 手压灭火机。 manual training (学校的)手工学科〔特指木工〕。 manual exercises 刀枪操练。 a sign manual签名,亲笔署名。 n. 1.手册;说明书;便览;指南,宝鉴;教本;(中世纪的)祈祷书。 2.【军事】刀枪操练。 3.【音乐】键盘。 4.手压灭火机。 a school manual教科书。 the service manual维修守则,使用细则。 adv. -ly 用手;亲自,实际。
Of equipment ; without a motor and intended for hand operation ( “ a manual keypunch ” ; “ a manual typewriter ” ) 对设备而言,指无马达和用手操作的设备(如人工键穿孔机、人工打字机) 。
In 1951 , there were no copying machines , so it seemed logical to haul out my trusty old royal manual typewriter and start copying all 420 pages 在1951年的时候没有复印机,所以搬出我陈旧生锈的“高贵”牌手动打字机似乎是合乎逻辑的,我可是打印那整整420页的文字。
My secretary has been using that old manual typewriter for more than twenty years and i cannot get to change to a word processor ; it seems you can ' t teach an old dog new tricks 我的秘书使用那台旧的手动打字机已有20多年了,因而我无法使她改用文字处理机,似乎无法使年老守旧的人接受新事物。
Once i got a job as a typist at a company where conventional manual typewriters were still used . when several people were typing , the discordant clatter of the typewriters gave me neurasthenia 有一回,我在一家打字行工作,那家是传统的铅打文字行,必须用手动去敲打吸附字盘的字,几个人一起工作的时候,吵杂声此起彼落,常令我感到脑神经衰弱。
What i did have was a friend who found me my room in a new york apartment building . it didn ' t even matter that is was cold and had no bathroom . i immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer 一位朋友帮我在纽约一栋公寓找到住的地方.公寓里很冷,又没有卫生间,但这也不算什么.我接下来买了一台二手人工打字机,当时感觉自己就是一个真正的作家了