Manual

(noun.) a small handbook.

(adj.) requiring human effort; 'a manual transmission' .

(adj.) of or relating to the hands; 'manual dexterity' .

(adj.) doing or requiring physical work; 'manual labor'; 'manual laborer' .

校对:齐利格

• How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This manual action seemed to deprecate words, to enjoin silence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He put such a vessel at work in a canal, working the pumps by manual labor, and suggested the employment of a steam engine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• And why are mean employments and manual arts a reproach? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The work is much quickened by the substitution of steam power, water power, or even horse power for manual labor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As he contemplated the concentration of six thousand tons daily, the expense of manual labor to move such an immense quantity of rock, sand, and ore would be absolutely prohibitive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The fear of raw material is shown in laboratory, manual training shop, Froebelian kindergarten, and Montessori house of childhood. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Other modern inventions in well-making machinery have consisted in innumerable devices to supplant manual labour and to meet new conditions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The types are inked by a series of rollers, by which the ink is distributed and evenly laid on the face of the types without any manual labour. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The process of bottling requires great manual dexterity. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Ordinary manual transmission by key is not in excess of forty to fifty words a minute. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Man’s natural dislike for manual labor quickly found objection to the physical effort of bicycle travel, and accordingly sought to devise mechanical means of overcoming it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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