cranked

英 [kræŋkt]

美 [kræŋkt]

v.  用曲柄转动(或启动)
crank的过去分词和过去式

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

• If you cranked up the aquarium heater and dumped some acid in the water, your fish would not be very happy, Dr. Pinsky said.
  如果你把水族箱里的加热器开高一些，倒一些酸性物质到水里，你的鱼可能会出问题，平斯基博士说。
• The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
  执法部门加大了调查力度。
• The engine is being cranked with the starting motor.
  发动机由起动机起动。这发动机发动不起来。
• Air-conditioning's cranked all the way up.
  空气调节器全都向上翻。
• The driver opened the windows and cranked up the stereo before going to set up a barbecue.
  司机打开窗户、开大音响，跟着就去放置烤架。
• Warren: Originally this machine was hand-cranked and we would have cranked the candy through by hand.
  沃伦：最初，这台机器是用手摇的，我们用手一下一下地把硬糖绞出来。
• He cranked the volume up on the car radio so that we couldn't talk.
  他调高了车上收音机的音量，使我们无法交谈。
• The Spurs really cranked it up in the closing moments, some amazing pressure.
  马刺在最后阶段真的全力去拼了，非常惊人的压力。
• The incident that cranked up the fear was the murder of Brian Smith
  布赖恩·史密斯被谋杀的案子让人们更加恐惧。
• White noise is helpful to block out ambient noises ( particularly prevalent in a big city)& and it's perfectly safe to listen as long as the volume isn't cranked up too loudly.
  白噪音对屏蔽环境噪音很有帮助（大城市的环境噪音太普遍了），只要别把音量调得太高，就非常安全了。