cranked

英 [kræŋkt]

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 legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
  执法部门加大了调查力度。
• If you really cranked hard, the belt would slip.
  如果用力加速的话，传动带甚至可能滑脱。
• Meanwhile, the US is exporting fuels, especially distillates, as producers have cranked up operating rates.
  与此同时，美国正在对外输出燃油，特别是馏分油，因为美国的生产商们提高了开工率。
• If you cranked up the aquarium heater and dumped some acid in the water, your fish would not be very happy, Dr. Pinsky said.
  如果你把水族箱里的加热器开高一些，倒一些酸性物质到水里，你的鱼可能会出问题，平斯基博士说。
• 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。
• The liver cranked up to refine the body's chemistry to accommodate the sugar and fat and starch that were coming in.
  肝’启动‘精炼身体化学物质以容纳将到来的纳糖、脂肪和淀粉。
• The engine is being cranked with the starting motor.
  发动机由起动机起动。这发动机发动不起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• Air-conditioning's cranked all the way up.
  空气调节器全都向上翻。