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

• Long cranks and Low gearing for lots of leverage and slow speed.
  龙曲柄和低负债的大量的杠杆和速度缓慢。
• For three cranks it has four bearing points in the crankcase.
  三个曲柄的曲柄箱内有四个支承点。
• Engine cranks, but will not start no smoke
  引擎能够用曲柄启动，但不能无烟启动
• She cranks up the Vanetian Blinds. I stare at the filmy white curtain, willing it to flutter.
  她把百叶窗拉了起来，于是我就一向谛视着朦胧的白窗帘，期待它的飘动。
• Protesters were dismissed as cranks.
  抗议者被当作怪物赶走了。
• The cranks are hollow, as you'd expect.
  而曲柄本身都是期望中的空心设计。
• Stay seated; utilize a combination of the forks rebound, upper body strength and power on the cranks to loft the front of your bike in the air.
  坐在车座上，把上身的力量集中在横把上，利用叉子回弹的合力使前轮离地。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are cranks and pulleys, beltings tight or slack
  有曲杆与滑车，还有皮带或紧或松