gadgetry

noun

1. （统称）小器具，小装置
   a collection of modern tools and devices
   1. His desk is covered with electronic gadgetry.
      他的书桌上摆满了各种电子装置。

1. N-UNCOUNT （统称）小器具，精巧装置
   Gadgetry is small machines or devices which do something useful.
   1. In the days before domestic gadgetry and time-saving appliances, food preparation took up most of the day.
      还没有家用小器具和省时的家用电器的时候，准备食物得花大半天时间。
   2. ...a passion for the latest electronic gadgetry.
      对时新电子小玩意的痴迷

1. In the days before domestic gadgetry and time-saving appliances, food preparation took up most of the day.
   还没有家用小器具和省时的家用电器的时候，准备食物得花大半天时间。
2. It is the kind of devotion to brand-new gadgetry that is virtually nonexistent in academic and publicly funded circles.
   这就像是致力于一种在学术圈子和公募圈子里几乎不存在的全新玩意儿。
3. Drivers increasingly use anti-lock brakes, stability control, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warnings and other high-tech gadgetry.
   驾车者正越来越多地用上了防抱死刹车系统、车辆稳定控制系统、自适应巡航控制系统、车道偏离警示系统和其他高科技配置。
4. Sonos was a pioneer, but a range of hardware start-ups have embraced a philosophy that prizes flexible software as the heart of gadgetry.
   Sonos是一个先锋，但是一系列硬件领域的创业公司也在其研发的设备当中，融入了重视软件灵活性的理念。
5. Expect more favors for inventive university graduates to fuel the next new line of smart gadgetry.
   可以期待有创意的大学毕业生得到更多支持，来推动智能小玩意的下一条阵线。
6. The enjoyment is made possible by a switchboard of gadgetry that powers the latrine to sing, spray and warm the backs of your thighs.
   马桶装有供电的配电板设施，可以唱歌、喷水并加热如厕者的大腿后部。
7. The next generations of General Motors Co.'s GM+ 3.19% Cadillacs will have softer corners, dashboards with more gadgetry and plusher rear seats.
   通用汽车公司（GeneralMotorsCo.）未来几代的凯迪拉克轿车（Cadillac）将拥有更加柔和的拐角线条，仪表盘将增加更多装置，后排座椅也将更为豪华。
8. That helped ease the bad publicity on itself as well as on some of its more famous customers: the likes of Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, whose electronic gadgetry is churned out by Foxconn workers.
   这帮助缓解了对富士康自身及一些更著名的公司客户的负面报道，例如由富士康工人为其生产电子器件的苹果（Apple）、戴尔（Dell）和惠普（Hewlett-Packard）等。
9. Electronic technology also promises to bring another major innovation to the industry: stationary "travel" through the gadgetry of virtual reality.
   电子技术还可能给旅游业带来另一项重大革新：通过虚拟现实的精巧装置进行静止“旅行”。
10. But so far, iPhone prices defying every known logic of gadgetry are not falling one bit.
    但迄今为止，iphone的价格未下降一分一毫，违背了电子产品的所有已知逻辑。
11. Mr Cook is not seen as a product visionary, and he has none of the rock-star charisma that made Mr Jobs an icon even for people with no particular love for gadgetry.
    库克并不被人视为一个产品梦想家，他也没有乔布斯那种摇滚明星的魅力，而正是这种魅力让乔布斯成为一个偶像，即便是在那些对电子产品没有特殊爱好的人眼里。
12. New developments will make the present gadgetry look very old-fashioned.
    新开发的产品将使目前的这些小玩意儿显得非常陈旧。
13. My daughter's beduoom is full of guitars, amplifiers, keyboards and miscellaneous gadgetry.
    我女儿的卧室充满了吉他、扩音器、键盘和各种各样的小机器。
14. You'd die without this gadgetry.
    没有这些玩意你就没命了。
15. The Chairman believes that his new gadgetry will allow him to perform a feat of monetary magic no other central banker has managed to pull off.
    联储主席试图让我们相信，他有一套神奇的货币工具，能及其他中央银行家们所不及。
16. The Saudis also buy Western weapons, technological gadgetry and consumer goods, from toothpicks to air defence systems.
    沙特人还购买西方的武器、技术机械和消费品，从牙签到防空系统无所不包。
17. The Setai in Miami has no truck with low-energy light bulbs or gadgetry and ferries its guests around in Range Rovers.
    迈阿密的setai酒店没有低能耗照明灯或者其它小玩意的卡车，接送客人都用rangerovers汽车。
18. The latest high-tech medical gadgetry.
    最新的高科技医疗器械。
19. Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, it has left us in a world without wonder.
    科学可能减轻病痛和劳苦，并且用各种电子仪器给人们各种娱乐和方便，但它也让我们的世界索然无味。

noun

1. appliances collectively
   1. laborsaving gadgetry