Oughtred
基本解释
- n.奥特雷德
英汉例句
- Denied credit for his invention, Oughtred was outraged.
奥特雷德因为发明的功劳被抹煞而大为光火。 - With Oughtred's invention in hand, no one needed a book of logarithms or even had to know what a log was.
有了奥特雷德的发明在手，从此大家不需要对数表手册，甚至用不著知道对数是什麽。 - Around 1622 William Oughtred, an Anglican minister in England, placed two sliding wooden logarithmic scales next to each other and created the first slide rule.
1622年左右，英格兰圣公会牧师奥特雷德（WilliamOughtred）将两把可滑动的木制对数尺并排放置，制作出史上首支计算尺，数年后他又制作了圆形计算尺。 - For whatever reason, Oughtred failed to publish news of his invention, but one of his students, Richard Delamain, claimed in a 1630 pamphlet to have come up with the circular slide rule.
因为某些原因，奥特雷德没有公开发表他的发明，但他的学生德莱门（RichardDelamain）于1630年在一份小报上宣称他发明了圆形计算尺。 - Not that Oughtred crowed about his achievements.As one who loved pure mathematics, he probably felt that his invention was not worth much.After all, mathematicians created equations;
身为纯数学爱好者，他可能不觉得自己的发明很有价值，毕竟数学家创造方程式，不应用方程式。