manual adj. 1.手的,手作的,手工的,用手操作的;便于手頭應(yīng)用的。 2.【法律】現(xiàn)有的。 manual labour 手工勞動。 a manual worker 體力勞動者。 the manual alphabet (聾啞人用的)手語字母。 a manual fire-engine 手壓滅火機。 manual training (學校的)手工學科〔特指木工〕。 manual exercises 刀槍操練。 a sign manual簽名,親筆署名。 n. 1.手冊;說明書;便覽;指南,寶鑒;教本;(中世紀的)祈禱書。 2.【軍事】刀槍操練。 3.【音樂】鍵盤。 4.手壓滅火機。 a school manual教科書。 the service manual維修守則,使用細則。 adv. -ly 用手;親自,實際。
A bowman can let off six aimed shots in a minute, an arquebusier only one in two or three minutes, when he has gone through all his manual exercise carefully 一名弓箭手可以每分鐘瞄準射擊六次,而一名火繩槍手只能每兩三分鐘射擊一次,這還是在他嚴格按照程序操作的情況下。
We are instructed, for instance, in manual exercises, in the fine and useful arts, in trades, and in ways of business; for these are methods, which have little or no effect upon the mind itself, are contained in rules committed to ( 3 ) memory, to tradition, or to use, and bear upon an end external to themselves 例如,老師教我們學做手工作業(yè),學美術(shù)和實用美術(shù),學貿(mào)易,學經(jīng)商之道;因為這些都是方法,對心智沒有作用或作用很小,包含在記憶、傳統(tǒng)或使用的規(guī)則當中,和它們外在的目的相關(guān)。