英语释义

1. a bent part of an axle or shaft or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft by which circular motion is imparted to or received from the shaft or by which reciprocating motion is changed into circular motion or vice versa

2. bend

3. a twist or turn of speech conceit —used especially in the phrase quips and cranks

4. caprice, crotchet

5. an annoyingly eccentric person also one who is overly enthusiastic about a particular subject or activity

6. a bad-tempered person grouch

7. crystal meth specifically an impure form of crystal meth

8. to move with a winding course zigzag

9. to turn a crank

10. to get started by or as if by the turning of a crank

11. to gain speed, momentum, or intensity —usually used with up
the campaign is cranking up

12. to move or operate by or as if by a crank
crank the window down

13. to cause to start
crank an automobile

14. to rotate the shaft (such as a crankshaft) of especially with a starter
crank over an engine

15. to use in trying to start an engine
crank the starter

16. to start as if by use of a crank —usually used with up
she cranked up the air conditioner

17. turn up sense 2 —usually used with up
crank up the volume

18. of, relating to, or being a bad-tempered or annoyingly eccentric person also made or sent by such a person or by someone intending to be an annoyance or to cause harm
crank calls a crank letter

19. merry, high-spirited

20. cocky, confident

21. easily tipped tender entry 1 sense 4d

22. a machine part with a handle that can be turned in a circular motion to move something

23. a person who has strange ideas or thinks too much about one thing

24. a person who is often angry or easily annoyed

25. to move (something) by turning a crank

26. to increase (something) especially by a large amount

27. to start or try to start (an engine) by using a crank or some other method to get it moving

28. a bent part with a handle that is turned to start or run machinery

29. a person with strange ideas

30. a cross or irritable person

31. to start or run by or as if by turning a part with a handle

32. to make or become greater in speed or intensity
crank the volume

33. to produce quickly and often carelessly
You can't just crank out a good book.

34. crystal meth specifically an impure form of crystal meth

片语

crank pin[机] 曲柄销；拐肘销

crank up转动曲柄起动；把声量调大；启动

crank pulley曲轴皮带轮

extended cranking延长的摇车

crank case曲拐箱；曲轴箱

cranking procedure起动步骤

pneumatic cranking气力起动

crank gear曲柄机构，曲轴齿轮；曲柄转动装置

crank out制成；粗制滥造

crank arm[机] 曲柄臂；曲臂；曲轴臂

crank shaft曲柄轴

cranking period摇车时期

cranking handle曲柄摇手

crank mechanism曲柄机构

cold cranking冷启动

cranking starter直接摇转起动机

hand crank手动曲柄

crank angle[机] 曲柄角

cranking circuit起动回路

英汉例句

• The shopping malls along Orchard Road are bustling. Fancy hotels are full of wealthy tourists despite cranking up their room rates.

  乌节路（orchardroad）上的大型商场中总是熙熙攘攘，钱袋鼓鼓的观光客不断地刷新着豪华酒店入住率。

• So while Britain「s Green Deal aims to reduce household CO2 emissions with the carrot of lower heating costs, homeowners may respond by cranking up the thermostat.

  所以当英国的绿色处理计划力求用更低的供热费用来减少家用二氧化碳排放物，房主们也许会启动恒温设备来回应。

• Whether you’re cranking the throttle, hitting the pedals or both, a shift of gears provides easier climbs or declines in grade, with less of a toll on the bike’s battery.

  不管你是要扣紧剎车、要蹬踩踏板或者两者同时，变速轮之间都可以轻松变换以顺利实现提速或减速，而自行车的电池耗电会比较少。

• And because a lot of libraries close at a certain hour—unless it」s finals week—it「s vitally important to see what they offer online when you」re cranking out that term paper at 4 a.m.

  由于许多图书馆都有固定的闭馆时间——除非是终考周——因此，搞清楚图书馆可以提供的在线服务是极其重要的，尤其是当你要赶在早晨4点完成学期报告时。

• Mahanoy City, Pa., in the morning when many residents are cranking up their coal stoves.

  宾州Mahanoys市清晨，许多居民就开始开动他们的煤炉子了。

• The social networking tool has spread rapidly in China during the past two years, cranking up the speed at which information travels and helping support the country「s fledgling civil society.

  过去两年，微博这种社交工具在中国快速传播，加快了信息流动的速度，并推动了中国尚不成熟的公民社会的发展。

• Apple supposedly planned to have Foxconn start cranking out iPad 2s in January, but has pushed back mass production while it finishes testing the system」s firmware.

  苹果可能计划让富士康在一月完成iPad2制作，但是大批量的生产将会在完成系统的固件测试之后。

• Walmart is cranking hard on its value proposition and it「s got the strong creative and analytics to get the job done.

  沃尔玛拼命碾压自己的价格定位，并加强了创造性和分析能力，从而达成了目标。

• So now it’s Tuesday night and the site seems to be cranking along under 50x the load that used to work on one box.

  现在已经是周二的晚上，原来在一台机器上处理的负载，现在已经增长到了50倍，网站看上去有点摇摇欲坠。

• Getting baristas to use a standard process to make coffee seems a lot like McDonald」s counter staff cranking out Egg McMuffins.

  让那些咖啡师习惯于咖啡制作的标準流程，这多少让人想起了麦当劳柜台上那些做着松饼的家伙。

• The U.S. Fed has also been cranking out currency over the past year, but has not been widely accused of being a currency manipulator.

  过去数年里美联储同样在大量印钞，但却没有因此被广泛的指责在操纵货币。

• And typically, research centers with large supercomputers are magnets for top scientific talent, adding significance to the presence of the machines well beyond just cranking through calculations.

  通常，配备超级计算机的研究中心也会吸引顶尖的科学人才，这就比机器仅仅能运算的意义更深远。

• I have my moments of productivity, where I「m cranking out the tasks and checking things off my to-do list like my life depended on it.

  当我有效率的时候，我会完成我的工作，然后把他们从我的任务清单上划去。

• Ponzi」s mind was a small factory for cranking out get-rich-quick schemes.

  庞茨的大脑就像一个小型工厂，不断的冒出一夜暴富的点子。

• China is supposed to be the world「s new millionaire machine, cranking out rich people like so many Happy Meal toys from a Guangdong factory.

  中国应当是全球新的百万富翁生产国，它生产的百万富翁就像广东一工厂生产的「快乐儿童餐」玩具一样多。

• As with some of the other IDEs, code snippet support is built in to make cranking out the code easy.

  在其他一些IDE中，代码片段是内置的以使代码编制更为容易。

• And the platform is open to outside developers, who are already cranking out powerful Plugins that integrate deeply with FogBugz.

  这个平台对全部有志于开发出强大插件并使其整合到FogBugz的开发者都是开放的。

• We are currently cranking on the 0.2 release, which we hope to have out soon.

  我们正在生产0.2版本，我们希望它能早日问世。

• As it turns out, 2010 was a good year for billionaires, cranking out 214 new members of the ten-zeros club.

  同时显示的是，2010年是一个亿万富翁的年份，全年有214个新成员加入10个0俱乐部。

• The Fed」s balance sheet suggests it has been cranking the printing presses like mad.

  美联储的资产负债表表明，它已疯狂地转动印刷机印制钱。

• This is a corollary of Rule 8: instead of cranking through a lot of tasks and multi-tasking, learn to focus on important tasks and single-task.

  这是第八条的一条推论：不要为繁杂的任务和多重任务而手忙脚乱，学会专注于重要的任务和单一任务。

• But it is just the world「s biggest-selling newspaper cranking up the printing presses in the bowels of the building for tomorrow morning」s edition.

  不过这只是这家世界最热销的报纸在大厦内部为明天早晨出版的报道做準备罢了。

• It doesn't require expensive additives or costly processing, but can go directly onto the substrate where it starts cranking out juice.

  不需要昂贵的添加剂或烧钱的加工方法伺候，也能直接到基底上干活。

• I have a really productive head of products cranking out code.

  我满脑子都是有关生产软件产品的设想。

• In 2006, Microsoft had been steadily cranking out patent applications for years, while Google was only just becoming large and profitable enough justify devoting serious resources to patent filings.

  2006年的时候，微软已经每年有稳定的专利产出，而Google当时才刚刚有人力和财力去支撑专利申请工作。

• Since then, the LHC has been cranking up for serious operation and on March 30th it passed a milestone.

  自从那时，一直为大型强子对撞机严格的开启操作做準备，3月30日是LHC的里程碑。

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