| 词汇 | machine gun |
| 词源 | machine gun. A gun, operated with a mechanism, that fires rapidly and repeatedly. It was so named in about 1865, though such guns were not perfected until the 1880s. Military histori- ans have estimated that machine gun fire was responsible for more than two-thirds of World War I casualties. See also maxim gun; tommy gun; uzi. |
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