cranked

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美 [kræŋkt]

v.  用曲柄转动(或启动)
crank的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 想法(或行为)古怪的人
  If you call someone acrank, you think their ideas or behaviour are strange.
  1. The Prime Minister called Councillor Marshall 'a crank'...
     首相称马歇尔议员为“怪人”。
  2. He looked like a crank.
     他看上去像个怪人。
• 曲柄;曲轴
  Acrankis a device that you turn in order to make something move.
• VERB (尤指用手摇曲柄)转动(或启动)
  If youcrankan engine or machine, you make it move or function, especially by turning a handle.
  1. The chauffeur got out to crank the motor.
     司机下车用曲柄去发动汽车。

双语例句

• The writer must have cranked it out in his lunch-hour.
  作者一定是在午饭时间把它赶出来的。
• The central government has cranked up interest rates, banned the hoarding of staple foods, raised subsidies to low-income families and increased the minimum wage.
  中央政府已经提搞了利率，禁止囤积主要的粮食，对低收入家庭提供补贴并且提高最低工资。
• He cranked the volume up on the car radio so that we couldn't talk.
  他调高了车上收音机的音量，使我们无法交谈。
• After China handed out licences for third-generation mobile services in January 2009, its three state-owned telecoms operators cranked up capital expenditure and rolled out 3G networks, starting in major cities.
  自从中国2009年1月开始发放第三代移动服务牌照以来，三大国有电信运营商加大了资本支出力度，并从各大城市开始，大举铺设3g网络。
• I watch TV with subtitles and the volume cranked up.
  我看的是带字幕的电视节目，音量调得很大。
• She cranked the shutters down.
  她转动曲柄把百叶窗放了下来。
• The incident that cranked up the fear was the murder of Brian Smith
  布赖恩·史密斯被谋杀的案子让人们更加恐惧。
• Here I cranked the carriage all the way across the ways and back.
  在这里，我曲柄所有运输方式之间和背部的方式。
• White noise is helpful to block out ambient noises ( particularly prevalent in a big city)& and it's perfectly safe to listen as long as the volume isn't cranked up too loudly.
  白噪音对屏蔽环境噪音很有帮助（大城市的环境噪音太普遍了），只要别把音量调得太高，就非常安全了。
• But in the past few days with the alacrity with which Scotty used to shift the Starship Enterprise from cruising speed to full thrust ahead Beijing has cranked up the economic levers.
  但就在过去几天，北京方面启动了经济杠杆，其敏捷性令人想起“企业号”（starshipenterprise）飞船的轮机长史考特（scotty）将飞船由巡航速度调整为全速前进。