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

• Not too long ago much of polite society in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen saw the SNP as a collection of leftish cranks.
  不久以前，爱丁堡、格拉斯哥或阿伯丁上流社会的许多人还把苏格兰民族党视为一群左翼怪人。
• Mechanical linkages and cranks went together far better than I had spent this whole year thinking it would be.
  机械的联系和曲柄到一起远胜于我曾经花了今年全年的思维便。
• The electric system does several jobs. It cranks the engine for starting. It supplies the high-voltage surges that ignite the compressed air-fuel mixture in the combustion chambers.
  电气系统有几项作用：启动发动机；提供高压电脉冲点燃燃烧室中空气和燃油的高压混合气。
• There are cranks and pulleys, beltings tight or slack
  有曲杆与滑车，还有皮带或紧或松
• Furthermore, because of its simplicity, a Jhai PC can be powered by a car battery charged with bicycle cranks& thus removing the need for a connection to the grid.
  此外，由于设计简单，Jhai电脑还可以用借助自行车曲柄充电的汽车电池来提供电源&这样就不必连接电网了。
• Experts say it seems to boost estrogen levels, which in some cases cranks up cancer risks.
  专家说，这似乎刺激雌激素的水平，在某些情况下，曲柄了癌症的风险。
• This paper, according to calculation and analysis, carried on a entire design of new planetary gear reducer with few tooth difference driven double cranks with method of virtual design and made an finite element analysis of the important parts.
  本文利用虚拟设计方法，在计算分析的基础上对创新构想的新型双曲柄少齿差行星减速机进行了整机设计，并对重要的零部件进行了有限元分析。
• 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 cranks are hollow, as you'd expect.
  而曲柄本身都是期望中的空心设计。
• Protesters were dismissed as cranks.
  抗议者被当作怪物赶走了。