mainspring

['meinspriŋ]

n.主要原因,主要推动力, 主发条

例句与用法：

The cylinder within the mechanism of a timepiece that contains the mainspring.

发条盒一圆柱形物，内装含有主发条的表的零件

Her jealousy is the mainspring of the novel's plot.

这部小说情节中贯穿了她的忌妒之心。

n.

1. (钟表)主发条

2. 主要原因, 主要动机; 主要动力

mainspring

词义辨析：

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mainspring['meinspriŋ]n.1.■(钟表等机械装置的)主发条，主弹簧2.■主要动力；主要动机；主要原因

1. the principal spring in a watch, clock, or other mechanism
   （钟表等机械装置）主发条，主弹簧
   ■(figurative)something that plays a principal part in motivating or maintaining a movement, process, or activity
   (喻)主要动力；主要动机
   they shared convictions that society was the mainspring of civilization.
   他们有着共同的信念，即社会是文明发展的主要推动力。
   

mainspring

名词 mainspring:

the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism

mainspring

■the cylinder within the mechanism of a timepiece that contains the mainspring

一圆柱形物，内装含有主发条的表的零件

■However complex the workings of the Hong Kong economy, the mainspring that drives the mechanism is simple enough.

不管香港经济的运转有多么复杂，推动这一机制的主要动力非常简单。

■mainspring winder

主发条卷线器

■mainspring hook

主发条钩

■The mainspring has not always been able to drive the mechanism at its full potential.

主要推动力并不总能尽一切可能地推动该机制发展。

■The keepers of the mainspring have little faith in it workings.

主要推动力的管理者们对其运转几乎毫无信心。

■His belief in freedom was the mainspring of his fight against slavery.

他对自由的信仰是他对奴隶制度作斗争的动力。

■But in 1949 the mainspring was released to work at full strength.

但1949年，主要推动力得到释放，开始全力发挥作用。

■Knowing any man's mainspring of motive you have as it were the key to his will.

你要找的正是这种“原动力”，它不一定总是某种高尚的或重要的东西。

■The mainspring of Paul's service is not love for men, but love for Jesus Christ.

保罗侍奉的根源不是爱人，乃是爱主。

■mainspring seat

击锤簧座

■reverse mainspring

反转发条 S形发条

■The mainspring makes the watch motion.

发条带动表走。

■mainspring catch piece

发条挂钩

■mainspring barrel

发条盒

■The cylinder within the mechanism of a timepiece that contains the mainspring.

发条盒一圆柱形物，内装含有主发条的表的零件

■mainspring wheel

发条轮

■tapered mainspring

变截面发条

■On the mainspring of Zhou Fucheng's ethical thoughts

周辅成伦理思想摄义

■resilient mainspring

回弹发条 S形发条

■the men also make this estimate of its effectiveness;they state frankly that it is the mainspring of their action, and that wherever the BAR moves and fires, it gives fresh impulse to the rifle line.

因为，当敌人展开进攻时，即使最初他们没有利用那一有利地形，但来自那片区域的威胁（敌军的进攻）差不多是经常性的，所以，对机枪的使用也就基本固定在那里了。

■"The first watches appeared shortly after 1500, when the mainspring was invented as a replacement for weights in driving clocks."

在1500年初用发条代替钟锤来驱动时钟发明后不久，就出现了第一批表。

■A cone-shaped pulley with a spiral groove, used in a cord- or chain-winding clock to maintain even travel in the timekeeping mechanism as the force of the mainspring lessens in unwinding.

均力圆锥轮一种用在绳索式或链条式钟表里的带螺旋状槽的圆锥轮，当钟表走动而发条动力减少时，用来维持计时装置的平稳运行

■Small companies are the mainspring of the British economy.

小型公司是英国经济的主体。

■mainspring with sliding attachment

带滑动副发条的发条

■Fear is the mainspring of war

恐惧是战争的主要动力。

■Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here.

我们在地上的喜乐，系于将来对天堂的盼望。

■I think the mainspring is broken.

我想主发条断了。

■It is requisite also that love to Jesus, and love to his elect, be ever the mainspring of all our patience.

所有忍凡包容的原因必须是出于爱耶稣并且爱我们的兄弟姊妹。

■Defeating radical Islam will remain a mainspring of American policy.

打败激进的伊斯兰教徒仍是美国政治上的一个重头戏。

■the mainspring of a reform movement

改革运动的主要推动力

■A piece in a gunlock that forces the hammer forward by action of the mainspring.

机心枪机内可通过主发条运作推动击铁向前的机伴

■mainspring cock jewel

条上钻

■mainspring disc

条盘

■Purposiveness cannot, logically, be the mainspring for language development.

目的性在逻辑上不能当成语言发展的主要动力。

■And the mainspring of it all was-the greed and selfishness of one man.

而这一切的主要原因就是那么一个人的贪欲和自私自利之心。

■The movements of the wrist make the rotor swing and this winds the mainspring automatically.

腕部的运动使得摆锤摇摆，自动使主发条上紧。

■But acquisitiveness, although it is the mainspring of the capitalist system, is by no means the most powerful of the motives that survive the conquest of hunger.

虽然占有欲是资本主义制度的主要动力,但它决不是征服了饥饿以后最强大动机。

■11-4 But acquisitiveness, although it is the mainspring of the capitalist system, is by no means the most powerful of the motives that survive the conquest of hunger .

虽然占有欲是资本主义制度的主要动力，但它决不是征服了饥饿以后最强大动机。

■But acquisitiveness, although it is the mainspring of the capitalist system , is by no means the most powerful of the motives that survive the conquest of hunger .

虽然占有欲是资本主义制度的主要动机，但它并不是征服饥饿后的一个强大动机，更为强烈的动机乃是竞争。

■The mainspring of the mechanism would remain unchanged.

这一机制的主要推动力依然不会改变。

■1. Her jealousy is the mainspring of the novel's plot.

这部小说情节中贯穿了她的忌妒之心.

■Her jealousy is the mainspring of the novel's plot.

这部小说情节中贯穿了她的忌妒之心。

■alarm mainspring

闹钟发条