| 单词 | adding machine |
| 例句 | At one point, his calculations were effectively held up for a year while he waited for the university to provide him with a simple adding machine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Some of the floor bosses had started using adding machines, clanking things crowded with stiff brass buttons and spools of paper, but Kaz did the Crow Club tallies in his head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bills piled up rapidly, and he was soon faced with the loss of his most precious medical instruments: his adding machine was repossessed, and then his typewriter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The office manager made the only noise in the office with his typewriter and adding machine, both of which Ignatius found slightly distracting. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Martha stood up on a platform at the adding machine show, and answered the problems quicker than the calculators could operate. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of it had gotten all the way over onto August’s adding machine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Typewriter and adding machine safe in black chest in private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Inexplicably, he sounded put out with the men who brought their adding machines to the Bible convention, and possibly with the Bible itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Still feeling frustrated because he hadn’t been able to take Ernestine to the speed typing contest, Dad insisted on taking Martha to an adding machine exhibition in New York. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The adding machine was developed in response to the Great Legume Failure of 1931, when accountants in Chicago were unable to do their work because they did not have enough beans to count. Style Invitational: Punku — 5-7-5-pun 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Bowman is a language dervish—the pleasure in hearing him describe the adding machine, the source of William S. Burroughs’s family as “the rosary of capitalism,” belongs not to me but to literature. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But he is by no means a "musical adding machine", as he was once described. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z The news channel screens were drowning in underexplained numbers, like someone had run over an adding machine with a lawn mower. On Midterm TV, Data Came Fast. Answers Came Later, if at All. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Mandell's Solomon, his hands aflutter as though dancing on the keys of an adding machine, traverses the stage like an old bird on twig-like legs that are about to snap. Arthur Miller's 'The Price' bursts into meaning at Mark Taper Forum 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s kind of the Stone Age here,” said Tom, pointing to a dusty hand-cranked adding machine on the counter. Where have all the camellias gone? A bittersweet end for historic Nuccio's Nurseries 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z One person asked for the entire recount of a contested state Supreme Court race from 2020 — a very long paper record resembling an adding machine tape that took days for one employee to copy. Trump backers flood election offices with requests as 2022 vote nears 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z In fact, the prisoners detailed to the operation did little but operate adding machines, performing meaningless mathematical operations, and other useless tasks. Henry Orenstein, Holocaust survivor who helped bring Transformers to U.S. toy shelves, dies at 98 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He made ends meet by repairing typewriters and adding machines. Vance Trimble, who won Pulitzer Prize by exposing congressional corruption, dies at 107 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z “Well, I do have an adding machine,” he says, a little indignantly, when his bookkeeping methods are met with disbelief. Need some serious plant therapy? The Cactus Ranch will see you, but only on weekends 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z A half dozen workers would tally up the river of money — up to $4,000 a day — on adding machines. Perspective | In the numbers game of the 1950s, one man was on top: ‘Whitetop’ Simkins 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z “What actually happened was it changed the job, so accountants didn’t spend their time punching numbers into the adding machine all day, but instead started doing all these visualizations and scenario planning.” Making French fries sucks. This robot does it for $3 an hour with no breaks 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Here’s one of my favorite, particularly depressing, passages from the skeletal tour guide about a simple device: It’s an adding machine. Kentucky Route Zero’s final act was worth the wait 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z After about 45 minutes of reading totals, and a few more minutes’ talk of weather and basketball over the rattling of adding machines, Mr. Beshear’s victory margin in Scott County was, again, 97 votes. In Kentucky, a Governor Who Picked Fights Loses a Big One 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Old adding machines that worked with a handle. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood – read the exclusive first extract 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Sales are still tallied on the mechanical Burroughs adding machine. Longtime feed store in Austin set to close in February 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Composed mostly during one anxious December on a roll of adding machine tape, it set the template for the others, including the National Book Award-winning "Garbage." 'The Complete Poems' of A.R. Ammons amount to a profound experience of empathy – LA Times 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z He sensed that voters are more than adding machines, weighing the costs and benefits of this stale tax plan or that tired promise of help. Our columnist bids farewell 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Pointer worked upstairs in the office where she first ran a 10-key adding machine. Pendleton JC Penney, oldest in original location, closing 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Harry Douglas Huskey was born in a farmhouse in Whittier, N.C., in the Great Smoky Mountains, on Jan. 19, 1916, just 30 years after the invention of the first commercially successful manual adding machine. Harry Huskey, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Is Dead at 101 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z What the calculator did to the adding machine, push and riding carts did to the caddie—didn't render them obsolete so much as eclipse them with a greater all-around efficiency. Best Club Transport - Golf Digest 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Blagg pointed out an adding machine - he recalled as a child walking by the ladies in the office as they used the devices and the clatter they made. 140-year-old hardware store in Texas to be sold, not closed 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z But when the shop gets busy, he says, he still calculates sales on his adding machine. Ringing Up Customers the Old-Fashioned Way 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z She located — and helped create — a vast market: single women who had been too busy waitressing or answering telephones or running adding machines to have gotten hep to the Summer of Love. The woman who encouraged women to be girly on the path to equality 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “And that was the time of adding machines, calculators and carbon paper,” she explained. ‘Service to others’ taxing but rewarding 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z He used to rent a 15-foot-by-30-foot storage space that was stacked floor to ceiling with typewriters and adding machines he kept around to cannibalize. Typewriter repairman works to keep old machines clacking 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The video showed Buffett’s three-week training regimen of Dairy Queen shakes, running an adding machine and reading the Wall Street Journal while riding an exercise bike. Buffett challenges Mayweather to fake fight in funny movie 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Like your eccentric buddy who still uses a flip phone, New York is full of shopkeepers who swear by cash registers that are little more than glorified adding machines. Ringing Up Customers the Old-Fashioned Way 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z An adding machine sat on Sidney’s desk, its long paper spool trailing to the floor. From strip clubs to priests, this Silver Spring CPA had all kinds of clients in his 68-year career 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z “It’s the combination of a telescope, a gyroscope, an adding machine — it’s just an amazing piece of gears and optics.” The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Alito recalled his father sitting at the dining table with an adding machine, readjusting the size of the legislative districts after the Supreme Court adopted the "one-person, one-vote" rule in the 1960s. Justice Alito's vote will be key in 3 cases challenging Obama's power 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z I would play on the adding machine, and then we would walk across the street from the office to our motels. Corner Office: Penny Pritzker, on Hearing the Whole Story 2013-12-21T17:16:07Z The only computers in 1948 when his book was written were adding machines. Quis custodiet? 2013-10-02T17:21:06.500Z The eldest of four children, Erdoes showed an early aptitude for math that was fostered at her grandmother Kay’s suburban Chicago breakfast table, where she helped balance her grandparents’ checkbook on an adding machine. Mary Callahan Erdoes, JPMorgan’s quiet force in asset management 2013-09-15T02:58:00Z The woman rings up the numbers on an adding machine, rips off the tape and hands it to Pharr. $47,850. To be self-sufficient, first you have to find an affordable apartment 2013-08-18T23:28:47Z Row after row of adding machines fill the shelves. Do we still need the telephone? 2013-07-25T23:30:08Z Bert Cooper, a name partner, sniffs that the banker pitching Sterling Cooper — who was earlier shown furiously punching an adding machine — conducted only 20 minutes of analysis. Advertising: When Madison Avenue Went Public, as Seen on ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-07T00:47:46Z Built for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Oxfordshire, it replaced work done by adding machines. Oldest working computer confirmed 2013-01-24T12:25:03Z Science was being stunted at the time by the limitations of mechanical adding machines, said Mr Hauser. Work starts on replica Edsac rebuild 2013-01-09T07:56:26Z The 2.5 tonne machine was created to ease the burden on scientists by doing electronically the calculations that previously were done using adding machines. Two-tonne Witch gets a reboot 2012-11-20T01:59:29Z His office looks as if it belongs to the kind of C.P.A. who still uses ledgers and a hand-cranked adding machine. Robert Caro?s Big Dig 2012-04-12T19:48:16Z His left foot hit a discarded paper bill binder and it crackled and he pulled away from it so he struck one of those adding machines on a portable carriage. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Great Scott! man, even a human adding machine has a right to take a little rest now and then. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The new device, the adding machine, has greatly lessened office drudgery. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z In addition, businesses are adding machines based on Intel’s more expensive chips. Intel Forecasts Sales Above Estimates on Laptop Computer Demand 2011-10-18T20:38:02Z "They walk the grocery aisles with little adding machines." Freeze-dried food: The new frugal frontier 2011-04-11T05:00:00Z Robert W. Chambers uses an adding machine and Theodore Dreiser favors an ax. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z The work entailed by such vast figures as these could scarcely have been dealt with by hand alone, but by the installation of adding machines the work is easily and quickly done. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Having installed an adding machine, our office work could be done in half the time. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z When he was 11, he built a mechanical adding machine from his Lego set. They're Young, and They're Restless: Collegiate Inventors Face Off 2011-01-04T16:16:41.567Z As will be seen, the equipment on each operator's position consists of three separate sets of push-button keys closely resembling in external appearance the keys of a typewriter or adding machine. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Watson continued, keeping time with the adding machine. A Canadian Bankclerk The work of obtaining the different totals required is greatly facilitated by the use of adding machines, which insure both accuracy and despatch. How Department Stores Are Carried On "I use an adding machine," she half whispered, and it made me chuckle. The Million-Dollar Suitcase The graduate student projects were even more complicated than Sahin’s adding machine. They're Young, and They're Restless: Collegiate Inventors Face Off 2011-01-04T16:16:41.567Z Under the bandage was a roll of adding machine tape. A Yankee Flier Over Berlin "No, but I will get you," retorted Brower, "if you don't grease that adding machine." A Canadian Bankclerk At any rate, we would set up our problem on the master, pushing the button Two, then the button Plus, and the button Two again as on a primitive adding machine. Two Plus Two Makes Crazy I went on past her unconscious back, left her working at her loose-leaf ledgers, beside her adding machine, my mind a whirl of ugly conjecture. The Million-Dollar Suitcase He held them behind him and his fingers fairly galloped as he used them for an adding machine. Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School There was an adding machine, two sets of files, several large cabinets with steel doors, and a desk with a typewriter on it. A Yankee Flier Over Berlin They rattled on, like their adding machines, jabbing back and forth and getting off speeches that are never heard in vaudeville, but still turning out the figures at a rapid rate. A Canadian Bankclerk They used banknotes and bills of exchange long before other nations, and the modern adding machine is founded upon a principle which has been used by them a thousand years. Birdseye Views of Far Lands We didn't feel it any more than the adding machines do. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America The shoulders were outrageously broad, the barrel of his chest was scandalously deep, the hands distressingly large and brown, considered in intimate association with filing systems and adding machines. The Plunderer If they are to be converted to uses for which excavation is desirable, this is another item for the adding machine. If You're Going to Live in the Country His mild, indifferent glance continued to rove over the house, noting with the accuracy of an adding machine certain men who either stood or sat in different parts of the house. The Black Pearl After the slips are sorted, the operation of obtaining the totals on each order number is performed with the aid of an adding machine. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency But at the ticketing connected with the adding machines the work was not differentiated so carefully. Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls I somewhat startled a young man at an adding machine by demanding, in a husky voice, a copy of "The Miscellanies of a Japanese Priest." Mince Pie Here sat a group of clerks, each with his soroban or adding machine at his side. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan Eighth, every ordinary practical problem can be solved conveniently on an adding machine. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Not loving Abigail, the house-keeper could, naturally, not give her love; and as for understanding her one might as reasonably have expected an adding machine to understand higher mathematics. The Oakdale Affair A collection of tall tales of the adding machine variety. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations It's Nut Valuable Once upon a time a wise and thoughtful craftsman made a new electric adding machine. Stories from the Old Attic Now, my friends, the bookseller is one of the keys in that universal adding machine, because he aids in the cross-fertilization of men and books. The Haunted Bookshop Our adding machines are used almost solely for United States money problems. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Its only furniture was a bunk with a coil of dirty blankets, a chair and table, on which stood an adding machine, the balls running on wires. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Don't think for a minute that the Germans were the only sufferers, we were clicking casualties so fast that you needed an adding machine to keep track of them. Over the Top All the parts inside the new adding machine felt good about being so valuable. Stories from the Old Attic It seemed a long, long time—then the clerk's voice, mechanical and dull as the click of an adding machine: "No, Dr. Clay checked out tonight." Purple Springs The clerk who only operates an adding machine has little opportunity for self-expression. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution This he set on the table in his own room, and sitting before it, began moving the balls in the adding machine. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California But we have never taken up with these new contraptions —fads—like phonographs to dictate to, card indices, loose-leaf systems, adding machines, and the like. Youth Challenges I do better with an adding machine down on Wall Street than a typewriter. The Voice on the Wire I simply had to learn music; and I learned it like the adding machine. Miss Billy Well, you can prove the additions yourself, Tom, on one of the adding machines. Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air Has something gone wrong with one of the adding machines, or is it just on account of the heat? 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