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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One of the things you find when your intuitiveness cranks up a level is that you begin to make better decisions.
  你的东西时，发现其中一个级别的直觉曲柄就是你开始作出更好的决策。
• 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。
• CNC billet aluminum bell cranks transfer servo motion to the swashplate.
  网通钢坯钟曲柄铝转移到斜盘式伺服议案。
• This paper discusses the existing conditions of planar five bar linkages with double cranks.
  对平面五连杆机构曲柄存在条件进行了探讨，并提出了机构类型的判别方法。
• The bicycles pedal cranks keep indifferent equilibrium state when they stay in the free state, so that they can bring about disturbance between people and machines.
  自行车脚蹬曲柄在自由状态时，曲柄处于随遇平衡，产生人机干扰。
• Protesters were dismissed as cranks.
  抗议者被当作怪物赶走了。