crank up

英 [kræŋk ʌp]

美 [kræŋk ʌp]

使（机器或设备）提高效率; 启动（机器或设备）; 开大，调高（音量）; 使增加; 使增强

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使(机器或设备)提高效率
  If youcrank upa machine or a device, you make it function harder or at a greater level.
  1. Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
     把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。
• PHRASAL VERB 启动(机器或设备)
  If youcrank upa machine or device, you start it.
  1. ...May's warm weather, which caused Americans to crank up their air conditioners.
     5月份的温热天气使得美国人打开了空调
• PHRASAL VERB 开大，调高(音量)
  If youcrank upthe volume of something, you turn it up until it is very loud.
  1. Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system...
     有人调大了公共广播系统的音量。
  2. By about six, they're cranking the music up loud again.
     到6点左右，他们又把音乐声音开大了。
• PHRASAL VERB 使增加;使增强
  Tocranksomethingupmeans to increase it or make it more intense.
  1. 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。
  2. The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
     执法部门加大了调查力度。

英英释义

verb

• rotate with a crank
  Synonym:crank
• start by cranking
  1. crank up the engine
  Synonym:crank

双语例句

• Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
  把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。
• The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
  执法部门加大了调查力度。
• If the reforms do fizzle, the government could well try to boost the economy again by deploying the old approach of big infrastructure spending and ordering state-owned banks to crank up their lending – precisely the model that many analysts say has become a blueprint for unsustainable growth.
  如果改革最终以失败收场，政府将再次通过以往的方式提振经济&大力投资基础设施，授意国有银行加大放贷。许多分析师表示，正是这样一种模式为经济增长的不可持续性埋下了伏笔。
• Crank up the clock cycles.
  加快时钟周期。
• The manger wants us to crank up the production line. Manage the cutting production and administer its personnel, define their training and development needs.
  管理人员希望我们提高生产线的作业速度。管理切片的生产，并确定相关人员的培训需求。
• Provided regulators do not allow banks to crank up their credit risks, profit margins on loans are restrained along with their volumes.
  假如监管部门不允许银行扩大贷款风险，那么贷款利润率以及放贷额就会受到抑制。
• And, when I play god I can crank up the global mutation rate.
  而且，当我扮演上帝时，我能加快全局突变率。
• This experience has made Beijing hesitant to crank up another big stimulus.
  这个经历使北京方面在出台又一轮大规模刺激的问题上有所犹豫。
• Dear house: When I wake up, please turn on the lights, crank up the heat, play some tunes and brew my coffee.
  亲爱的房子：当我起床的时候，请打开电灯，调高室温，放点音乐，把我的咖啡煮好。
• Analysts estimate BHP and Rio alone will crank up capacity by an extra 70m tonnes.
  分析师估计，仅必和必拓及力拓就会额外增加7000万吨产能。