英语释义

1. a simple machine of the inclined plane type consisting of a spirally grooved solid cylinder and a correspondingly grooved hollow cylinder into which it fits

2. a nail-shaped or rod-shaped piece with a spiral groove and a slotted or recessed head designed to be inserted into material by rotating (as with a screwdriver) and used for fastening pieces of solid material together

3. a screwlike form spiral

4. a turn of a screw also a twist like the turn of a screw

5. a screwlike device (such as a corkscrew)

6. a worn-out horse

7. a small packet (as of tobacco)

8. a prison guard

9. a person who bargains shrewdly also skinflint

10. a propeller especially of a ship

11. thumbscrew sense 1

12. pressure or punitive measures intended to coerce —used chiefly in the phrase put the screws on or put the screws to

13. an act of sexual intercourse

14. a partner in sexual intercourse

15. to be mentally unbalanced

16. to attach, fasten, or close by means of a screw

17. to unite or separate by means of a screw or a twisting motion

18. to press tightly in a device (such as a vise) operated by a screw

19. to operate, tighten, or adjust by means of a screw

20. to torture by means of a thumbscrew

21. to cause to rotate spirally about an axis

22. to twist into strained configurations contort
screwed up his face

23. squint

24. crumple

25. to furnish with a spiral groove or ridge thread

26. to increase the intensity, quantity, or capability of
trying to screw up courage to confess
— Will Scott

27. to mistreat or exploit through extortion, trickery, or unfair actions especially to deprive of or cheat out of something due or expected

28. to treat so as to bring about injury or loss (as to a person's reputation)
use the available Federal machinery to screw our political enemies
— J. W. Dean III —often used as a generalized curse
screw you!

29. to extract by pressure or threat

30. to copulate with

31. to rotate like or as a screw

32. to turn or move with a twisting or writhing motion

33. copulate

34. a narrow, pointed metal cylinder that has a wide flat or rounded top and a ridge (called a thread) that goes around it in a spiral

35. an object that has a thread like a screw which is used to attach or connect it to something

36. to attach (something) with a screw

37. to turn (something) so that it attaches or connects to something

38. to fit onto or into something by being turned

39. a nail-shaped or rod-shaped piece of metal with a winding ridge around its length used for fastening and holding pieces together

40. the act of twisting

41. propeller

42. to attach or fasten with a screw

43. to turn or twist on a winding ridge to attach
Remember to screw the lid back on the jar.

44. to twist out of shape
Her face was screwed up with pain.

45. to increase in amount
He had to screw up his nerve to ask.

46. a threaded device used in bone surgery for fixation of parts (as fragments of fractured bones)

片语

wrong with有毛病；出故障；不正常

go wrong出毛病；弄错；发生故障

英汉例句

• he must have a screw loose somewhere; he「s acting really strangely.

  他一定是哪根筋不对，他的行动真奇怪。

• bill must have a screw loose somewhere; he」s acting really strangely .

  比尔肯定是哪里不对劲了，他的行为很奇怪啊。

相似词

contort扭曲

deform使变形；使成畸形

distort扭曲；变形

misshape外形残缺的廉价巧克力（或其他食品）；奇怪形状

squinch[建] 内角拱；[建] 突角拱；对角斜拱

torture折磨；拷问；歪曲

warp弯曲，歪曲；偏见；乖戾