• n. 裝置，設備；儀器；器官

前綴ap-同ad-. 詞根par, 準備，見prepare.

apparatus

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).

1. They lacked the scientific personnel to develop the technical apparatus much further.

他們缺少能夠進一步研發這一技術裝置的科研人員。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a piece of laboratory apparatus

一件實驗室儀器

來自《權威詞典》

3. A nuclear reactor is the apparatus in which atoms are split.

核反應堆是分裂原子的裝置.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.

呼吸器上的管子脫落時,我差點給憋死.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The breathing apparatus includes the nose, throat and lungs.

呼吸器官包括鼻 、 咽喉及肺.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》