| 词汇 | rube goldberg contraption |
| 词源 | Rube Goldberg contraption. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, as the preposterously “logical” machinery in his comic strips showed, never wanted to disappoint anyone. His complicated diagrammed panels never did, either; the machinery in them performed childishly simple tasks that could have been done far easier by hand. A parody of this mechanized world, these wild and wonderful contraptions made his name synonymous with any complicated, wildly impractical invention or scheme and won him lasting fame as well as exhibitions in the most conservative museums. Goldberg died in 1970, aged 87, and some of his obituaries failed to mention the fact that he had won two Pulitzer Prizes for his political cartoons. See heath robinson contraption. |
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