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

• The cranks are hollow, as you'd expect.
  而曲柄本身都是期望中的空心设计。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Instead, Sanrio simply cranks the product handle, agreeing to license almost anything as long as it does not tarnish the cute and friendly image.
  相反，公司在产品问题上出的也是怪招，只要不给小猫可爱友好的形象抹黑，任何产品公司都答应给予使用授权。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Not too long ago much of polite society in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen saw the SNP as a collection of leftish cranks.
  不久以前，爱丁堡、格拉斯哥或阿伯丁上流社会的许多人还把苏格兰民族党视为一群左翼怪人。
• Cranks are important parts in a car body.
  曲臂是车体中的重要零件。