cog
音标：
美音：/kɑːɡ/，英音：/kɒɡ/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
He creates a machine and players are just cogs in that machine.
他创造了一台机器，而球员只是这台机器上的齿轮。
—BBC
But as the conflict grew more violent, the numbers increased and he became what he described as a cog in a vast bureaucracy of death.
但随着冲突变得更加激烈，人数增加，他成了他所说的庞大死亡官僚机构中的一个齿轮。
—New York Times
“It feels like we’re this one small little cog in the machine, trying to stop the Titanic from sinking.”
“感觉就像我们是机器中的一个小齿轮，试图阻止泰坦尼克号沉没。”
—Washington Post
基本释意：
noun
tooth on the rim of gear wheel
n. 齿轮，轮齿；（木工）凸榫；小人物；中世纪海船
同义词：
sprocket
短释义：
An engine needs each of its parts to work. It has gears which have wheels. Each wheel has cogs, or tiny teeth that fit together, making the wheel turn, the engine run. Every cog is essential to that engine.
发动机需要它的每个部件才能工作。它有带轮子的齿轮。每个轮子都有嵌齿轮或嵌合在一起的小齿，使轮子转动，发动机运转。每个齿轮对于该引擎都是必不可少的。
长释义：
People can also be cogs — they are the workers who, day in and day out, perform their duties seemingly with no end in sight. Feeling disheartened, they might say, “I’m just a cog in the system.” If you hear this, remind them of the true definition of the term cog — an instrumental part of the whole.
人们也可以是齿轮——他们是日复一日地履行职责的工人，似乎没有尽头。感到沮丧时，他们可能会说，“我只是系统中的一个齿轮。”如果你听到这个，提醒他们齿轮这个词的真正定义——整体的一个重要部分。
文学例句：
It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
它又开始咆哮了，这是一种奇怪的刺耳的声音，混合了电的嘶嘶声、油炸声、金属刮擦声、齿轮转动的声音，这些齿轮看起来生锈而古老，令人怀疑。
—Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Regardless of the video’s precise impetus, the broader thesis is clear: the moment we stop asking questions of authority, we become cogs in a monstrous and dehumanizing machine.
不管这段视频的确切动机是什么，更广泛的论点是明确的：当我们停止向权威提问时，我们就变成了一个可怕的、非人化的机器中的齿轮。
—Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps by Amanda Petrusich
She’s a cog in somebody’s machine, barely seen and utterly unacknowledged.
她是某人机器上的一个齿轮，几乎看不见，也完全不为人所知。
—Review | In the galleries: Tim Doud takes a tactile turn by ???
词源：
cog (n.)c. 1300, “wheel having teeth or cogs;” late 14c., “tooth on a wheel,” probably a borrowing from a Scandinavian language (compare Norwegian kugg “cog”) and cognate with Middle High German kugel “ball.”Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
齿轮（n.）c。 1300，“有齿或嵌齿轮的轮子；” 14 世纪晚期，“轮子上的牙齿”，可能是从斯堪的纳维亚语中借用的（比较挪威语中的 kugg“cog”），与中古高地德语中的 kugel“ball”同源。相关条目及更多
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