以水利、水电工程为例,hydraulic engineerings、hydropower engineerings,百度之下,书刊标题、正文中不绝于目。比如,中国水利水电出版社2004出版的《水利水电工程招标投标运作指南(Guidelines: Call for Tender and Tendering of Hydraulic and Hydroelectric Engineerings) 》封面名称。
然而,engineering作“工程”解释时,是不可数名词,无复数形式。
现手工摘录两本词典的诠释:
1.纯英文版《Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English》(1995年版,外语教学与研究出版社):n [U] the profession and activity of designing the way roads, bridges, machines etc are built.
5.The research provides a basic idea of temperature field feedback analysis and cracking simulation of rcc arch dam; and the analytical results are also of practical value for the similar engineerings.