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

• 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。
• That anonymity creates a phoney equality, which puts cranks and experts on the same footing. The so-called grain shortage was in most cases fictitious; the clamour about it was raised by landlords, rich peasants and well-to-do middle peasants.
  这样的匿名造成一种把怪人和专家放在同样的地位的虚假的平等。所谓缺粮，大部分是虚假的，是地主、富农以及富裕中农的叫嚣。
• 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。
• Knowledge of the contents of the code was confined to the dress department, which by this time consisted of 20 people, mostly lawyers, the union representative who negotiated over it, and a few cranks who enjoyed pointing out inconsistencies and anomalies.
  只有着装部门才清楚规范的内容到这个时候，该部门已有20个人，大多数是律师、协商规范的工会代表和一些喜欢指出奇异之处的怪人。
• The cranks are hollow, as you'd expect.
  而曲柄本身都是期望中的空心设计。
• 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。
• It transmits the force to a bevel gear and from there to a succession of eight spur gears, which move the eight tentacles of the jellyfish via cranks.
  中央驱动器把动力传输到一个锥齿轮上，然后再传给八个连续的直齿轮，直齿轮通过曲柄带动水母上的八个“触角”。
• 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。
• 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。