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

• 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。
• 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。
• Avoding this condition, we can change the integral cranks gravity center and realize stable equilibrium.
  为避免此种状态的出现，可改变整体曲柄重心，实现稳定平。
• 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。
• For three cranks it has four bearing points in the crankcase.
  三个曲柄的曲柄箱内有四个支承点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。