2. In 1941, the train would have been pulled by a steamengine.
1941年，火车可能已由蒸汽机车来牵引了。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3. The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.
8. However, the arrival of the steamengine initiated a complete transformation in rail transportation, entrenching and expanding the Industrial Revolution.
然而，蒸汽机的出现引发了铁路运输的彻底变革，并巩固和拓展了工业革命的成果。
来自互联网
9. By 1800 more than a thousand steamengines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steamengine production until the 1830s.
到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。
来自互联网
10. A rotary engine attached to the steamengine enabled shafts to be turned and machines to be driven, resulting in mills using steam power to spin and weave cotton.
连接在蒸汽机上的旋转式发动机使轴承转动，机器得以驱动，从而使得利用蒸汽动力纺线和织布的工厂出现。
来自互联网
11. In the late 1700s James Watt designed an efficient and commercially viable steam engine that was soon applied to a variety of industrial uses as it became cheaper to use.
12. In some industrial regions, heavily laden wagons, with flanged wheels, were being hauled by horses along metal rails; and the stationary steam engine was puffing in the factory and mine.
13. Unfortunately this early plant experienced the problem common to many forms of renewable energy: the flow in the Wey River was unreliable, and the waterwheel was soon replaced by a steam engine.
