(in science fiction) a machine capable of transporting a person backwards or forwards in time.
（科幻小说中能载人往返于现在、过去、未来之间的）时间机器
Example sentencesExamples
I erred on the side of caution and will be dispatching Iain to the earlier date as soon as a time machine becomes available.
But instead of setting her time machine to shoot into the future, she would rather go back in time.
So when we built the time machine it was Ethan who came back from the Future.
It was a messy affair involving a time machine and a mirror.
To fully understand this, we need to take a trip in the magic time machine back to 2002 and my final year of secondary school.
I feel guilty over all that but what can I do except build a time machine, maybe I just don't deserve to be happy.
The time machine then speeds forward into the very distant future.
I told Peter that I would love to have a time machine, just so I could go and observe the people who built and used Newgrange.
So the convention will only work if someone has already built a time machine.
Turns out they built a time machine, and swiped armaments from the future.
Take the time machine to 2004 and you find another equally rare substance - oil.
Both want everything for themselves, neither are taken seriously but only Stuey is capable of building a time machine.
Hermione mischievously disrupts the time-space continuum with a time machine which allows her to spy on herself from afar.
The plan is, if they sell enough, to build a time machine and to go back and try and change the result of the 2004 US election.
Think of the 1930s, and there is only one city where a time machine would drop these pleasure-seekers.
A vivid imagination is the closest we come to a time machine, but it works only by taking us away from the present.
It is almost as if he has found a time machine and is talking to the actual characters involved which in some way makes the whole thing a bit more interesting.
Add this to the list of places I want to visit when they invent the time machine.
Visitors will be whisked back to 975 AD in a state-of-the-art time machine.
In the title play, an empty swimming pool becomes a time machine for Sheppard, an architect who is looking to resurrect his dead wife.
Definition of time machine in US English:
time machine
nountaɪm məˈʃintīm məˈSHēn
(in science fiction) a machine capable of transporting a person backward or forward in time.
（科幻小说中能载人往返于现在、过去、未来之间的）时间机器
Example sentencesExamples
So the convention will only work if someone has already built a time machine.
Both want everything for themselves, neither are taken seriously but only Stuey is capable of building a time machine.
I told Peter that I would love to have a time machine, just so I could go and observe the people who built and used Newgrange.
It is almost as if he has found a time machine and is talking to the actual characters involved which in some way makes the whole thing a bit more interesting.
The plan is, if they sell enough, to build a time machine and to go back and try and change the result of the 2004 US election.
It was a messy affair involving a time machine and a mirror.
Add this to the list of places I want to visit when they invent the time machine.
Visitors will be whisked back to 975 AD in a state-of-the-art time machine.
I erred on the side of caution and will be dispatching Iain to the earlier date as soon as a time machine becomes available.
A vivid imagination is the closest we come to a time machine, but it works only by taking us away from the present.
The time machine then speeds forward into the very distant future.
Turns out they built a time machine, and swiped armaments from the future.
In the title play, an empty swimming pool becomes a time machine for Sheppard, an architect who is looking to resurrect his dead wife.
Think of the 1930s, and there is only one city where a time machine would drop these pleasure-seekers.
Take the time machine to 2004 and you find another equally rare substance - oil.
But instead of setting her time machine to shoot into the future, she would rather go back in time.
So when we built the time machine it was Ethan who came back from the Future.
Hermione mischievously disrupts the time-space continuum with a time machine which allows her to spy on herself from afar.
To fully understand this, we need to take a trip in the magic time machine back to 2002 and my final year of secondary school.
I feel guilty over all that but what can I do except build a time machine, maybe I just don't deserve to be happy.