英语释义

1. wrench

2. a wrench that has a hole, projection, or hook at one or both ends of the head for engaging with a corresponding device on the object that is to be turned

片语

Pipe spanner管子扳手；管钳

cock spanner旋塞扳手

spanner stay主柱间横拉索

torque spanner扭力扳手，力矩扳手

Spanner uppercut扳手上钩拳

wheel spanner车轮扳手

English spanner活动扳手

Ring spanner梅花扳手

plug spanner塞扳子；火花塞扳手

英汉例句

• on the coasts, where its exporting factories are clustered, bosses are short of workers, and workers short of patience. a spate of strikes has thrown a spanner into the workshop of the world.

  在沿海那些出口工厂扎堆的地区，老板的手中缺少工人，工人的心中耐性不足，一阵狂风骤雨的罢工把扳手掷向了世界这个大工厂。

• the labour droids were kind enough to offer spanner shelter.

  那些劳工机器人非常友好地为「扳手」提供避难所。

• lend me a double-ended spanner please.

  借给我双头扳手。

• the ring spanner is in my hand.

  环形扳手在我这里。

• i’m talking about the kind of mood that throws a spanner in the works, has you fuming at every little thing and threatens to ruin a perfectly good day.

  我说的是会给你带来麻烦，让你为任何小事情恼火，也可能破坏你非常美好的一天的那种心情。

• did you notice anyone take the bent spanner away?

  你看见谁把弯扳手拿走了？

• the spanner for dismantling the propeller is in the steering room. please tie it back in place after use.

  拆卸推进器的扳手在舵机房里，有后请归放原处。

• and the idea of liberating hydro from geography with small, free-standing turbines may have local applications, but maintaining such turbines is far more trouble than taking a spanner to a windmill.

  建立小型独立的水力发电机或许可以降低水能对于地理条件的要求，有可能实现普及，但对于涡轮发电机的日常维护要比风力发电站麻烦的多。

• but this person came into my life and put a spanner in the works.

  但此人走进我的生活并把扳手的作品。

• the spanner for dismantling the propeller is the steering gear room.

  拆螺旋桨用的扳手在舵机间。

• adding tnf-α to the fibroblast system did indeed throw a spanner in the works.

  将tnf-α添加到纤维细胞系中着实是个难题。

• if nothing had happened, it really would have been a spanner in the works for the whole theory.

  如果什么事情都没有发生，整个理论研究就会陷入瘫痪。

• i need a spanner to change the back wheel.

  我要一个扳手来换掉后面的轮胎。

• were it true, such a scenario would certainly throw a spanner in the works and have a devastating effect on financial markets, but thus far the story has not gained much traction.

  如这则报道是真的，则这种情况势必会给会谈工作抛出一个扳手，对金融市场造成破坏性的影响，但迄今为止，该报道并未赢得多大吸引力。

• but the debt crisis has thrown a spanner in the works, because public-sector jobs in many countries have been drastically cut back.

  但债务危机对这些工作造成了沉重打击，原因是许多国家公共部门都大规模裁员。

• the birth control pill could also throw a spanner in the works of the laws of natural attraction as it prevents women giving off monthly fertility signals believed to be subtly alluring to men.

  避孕药还可能扰乱异性间自然吸引的规律，因为它会阻止女性每月释放生育信号，而这被认为可以吸引男性。

• a further spanner was thrown into the works by turkey’s refusal to allow use of its territory — meaning that the british had to hurriedly retool for an invasion from kuwait.

  更不顺的情况发生于土耳其拒绝让军队通过它的领地—意味着英国必须赶紧为从科威特进攻而重组。

• you can use a spanner to loosen the nut.

  你可以用扳手来松这个螺母。

• but the ndrc threw a spanner in the works, arguing that it should be the entity responsible for approving the bid rather than the ministry of commerce.

  但是国家发改委从中作梗，辩称应该是企业对批準这个提议负责，而不是商务部。