machinery

機械類、機械設備

特に工場や農場で、仕事のために使う機械をまとめた呼び方。

やさしい英語で： Machines used together to do work, especially in a factory or on a farm.

• The factory needs new machinery.
• Workers repaired the heavy machinery yesterday.
• Do not operate machinery when you feel sleepy.

類義語： machines, equipment

よく使う表現： heavy machinery, farm machinery, operate machinery

機構、仕組み

組織や制度を動かしている人、規則、手順の全体。

やさしい英語で： The people, rules, and processes that make an organization or system work.

• The legal machinery began to operate.
• She understood the machinery of local government.
• The party's machinery helped organize the campaign.

使い方： machinery of something (The machinery of government moved slowly.)

類義語： system, apparatus, organization

よく使う表現： machinery of government, legal machinery, administrative machinery

機構、機械の内部装置

機械の中で動いたり働いたりする部品をまとめたもの。

やさしい英語で： The moving or working parts inside a machine, considered together.

• The machinery inside the clock stopped.
• He removed the cover to examine the machinery.
• Dust had damaged the tiny machinery within the toy.

類義語： mechanism, works

よく使う表現： internal machinery, clock machinery, expose the machinery