| 词汇 | heath robinson contraption |
| 词源 | Heath Robinson contraption. William Heath Robinson (1872–1944) drew cartoons of complicated and impractical but clever and humorous machines or devices like Rube Goldberg contraptions. These were featured in Punch and other promi- nent British publications, his name becoming attached to the devices just as Rube Goldberg’s did. |
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