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

• 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 cranking enrichment system provides extra fuel when a cold engine is being cranked.
  起动加浓系统在冷发动机起动时供应额外的燃油。
• She cranked the shutters down.
  她转动曲柄把百叶窗放了下来。
• 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。
• These moves mean that De Beers 'mines on the arid plains of Botswana have cranked back to life.
  这意味着，戴比尔斯在贫瘠的博茨瓦纳平原上的钻矿已重获新生。
• The driver opened the windows and cranked up the stereo before going to set up a barbecue.
  司机打开窗户、开大音响，跟着就去放置烤架。
• 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。
• 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。
• Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system
  有人调大了公共广播系统的音量。
• 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。