cranks

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n.  (想法)古怪的人; 脾气坏的人; 容易恼怒的人; (L字形)曲柄，曲轴
v.  用曲柄转动(或启动)
crank的第三人称单数和复数

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

• Furthermore, because of its simplicity, a Jhai PC can be powered by a car battery charged with bicycle cranks& thus removing the need for a connection to the grid.
  此外，由于设计简单，Jhai电脑还可以用借助自行车曲柄充电的汽车电池来提供电源&这样就不必连接电网了。
• But if he cranks it up all the way to level 3 then its time to panic. This is the official Government-sanctioned rate that must be used for all taxi rides following a nuclear explosion.
  但是如果司机把标准升到水平3的话，这时候你要感到恐惧才对。因为水平3是政府制定的标准，而这种标准只有在核爆炸的情况下才会被应用。
• This paper discusses the existing conditions of planar five bar linkages with double cranks.
  对平面五连杆机构曲柄存在条件进行了探讨，并提出了机构类型的判别方法。
• Knowledge of the contents of the code was confined to the dress department, which by this time consisted of 20 people, mostly lawyers, the union representative who negotiated over it, and a few cranks who enjoyed pointing out inconsistencies and anomalies.
  只有着装部门才清楚规范的内容到这个时候，该部门已有20个人，大多数是律师、协商规范的工会代表和一些喜欢指出奇异之处的怪人。
• The dramatic warning cranks up Russian pressure on countries in the Baltic region.
  这一戏剧性的警告加大了俄罗斯对波罗的海各国施加的压力。
• The withdrawal of large circuit breakers shall be facilitated by means of cranks, gears or other devices.
  一位译员把它翻译为：大型断路器应采用曲柄、齿轮或其他装置而易于抽出。
• The cranks are hollow, as you'd expect.
  而曲柄本身都是期望中的空心设计。
• CNC billet aluminum bell cranks transfer servo motion to the swashplate.
  网通钢坯钟曲柄铝转移到斜盘式伺服议案。
• Stay seated; utilize a combination of the forks rebound, upper body strength and power on the cranks to loft the front of your bike in the air.
  坐在车座上，把上身的力量集中在横把上，利用叉子回弹的合力使前轮离地。
• The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of America in line.
  数百项旨在约束其他美国公民的新法律条文就是由这帮人炮制出来的。