cranked

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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

• A lot of our players have played Premier League football, but this cranked it up a bit.
  我们许多球员都在超级超级联赛效力，但是这场比赛着实让他们吃了苦头。
• 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。
• The coaches cranked up the practice routine for the losing Washington Redskins.
  华盛顿红人队屡战屡败，教练们不得不加紧训练。
• 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。
• Warren: Originally this machine was hand-cranked and we would have cranked the candy through by hand.
  沃伦：最初，这台机器是用手摇的，我们用手一下一下地把硬糖绞出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
  执法部门加大了调查力度。
• 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。