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

• Some were cranks, and some were women offering themselves in case he struck out.
  有些捣乱的，另一些是很多女性提供自己的个人情况看是不是他要找的人。
• This paper, according to calculation and analysis, carried on a entire design of new planetary gear reducer with few tooth difference driven double cranks with method of virtual design and made an finite element analysis of the important parts.
  本文利用虚拟设计方法，在计算分析的基础上对创新构想的新型双曲柄少齿差行星减速机进行了整机设计，并对重要的零部件进行了有限元分析。
• 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 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。
• The electric system does several jobs. It cranks the engine for starting. It supplies the high-voltage surges that ignite the compressed air-fuel mixture in the combustion chambers.
  电气系统有几项作用：启动发动机；提供高压电脉冲点燃燃烧室中空气和燃油的高压混合气。
• It transmits the force to a bevel gear and from there to a succession of eight spur gears, which move the eight tentacles of the jellyfish via cranks.
  中央驱动器把动力传输到一个锥齿轮上，然后再传给八个连续的直齿轮，直齿轮通过曲柄带动水母上的八个“触角”。
• Engine cranks, but will not start no smoke
  引擎能够用曲柄启动，但不能无烟启动
• Mechanical linkages and cranks went together far better than I had spent this whole year thinking it would be.
  机械的联系和曲柄到一起远胜于我曾经花了今年全年的思维便。
• 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 cranks are hollow, as you'd expect.
  而曲柄本身都是期望中的空心设计。