This clock operates off of pneumatics, and it has air cylinders that will extend it out.

这个钟是靠气压运转的，它里面的气缸可以让它伸出来。

But if subtleties and sophisms composed the greater part of the metaphysics or pneumatics of the schools, they composed the whole of this cobweb science of ontology, which was likewise sometimes called metaphysics.

但是，如果说微妙和诡辩构成了形而上学或流派的风力学的大部分，那么它们就构成了整个本体论的蛛网科学，它有时也被称为形而上学。

What are called metaphysics, or pneumatics, were set in opposition to physics, and were cultivated not only as the more sublime, but, for the purposes of a particular profession, as the more useful science of the two.

所谓形而上学或气动学与物理学相对立， 不仅被培养为更崇高的学科， 而且为了特定专业的目的， 被培养为两者中更有用的科学。