- A crane is an elegant white bird with a very long neck. You're most likely to see cranes wading near shorelines and in marshy areas.
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- n. 吊车；鹤
- v. 伸出，伸长
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1. This machine is called a crane.
这种机器叫做起重机。
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2. She craned her neck to get a better view of the stage.
她伸长了脖子看舞台，好看清楚些。
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3. People were craning out of the windows and waving.
人们把头探出窗外挥手致意。
- crane (n.) large grallatorial bird with very long legs, beak, and neck, Old English cran, common Germanic (cognates: Old Saxon krano, Old High German krano, German Kranich, and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse trani, Danish trane), from PIE *gere-no-, suffixed form of root *gere- (2) "to cry hoarsely," also the name of the crane (cognates: Greek geranos, Latin grus, Welsh garan, Lithuanian garnys "heron, stork"). Thus the name is perhaps an echo of its cry in ancient ears.
- crane (v.) 1799, of the neck, "to stretch or be stretched out," from crane (n.). As "to stretch or bend the neck," 1849. Earliest sense (1560s) is "to hoist with a crane." Related: Craned; craning.
crane / kreɪn ; NAmE kreɪn / noun , verb crane cranes craned craning noun 1 a tall machine with a long arm, used to lift and move building materials and other heavy objects 起重机；吊车 2 a large bird with long legs and a long neck 鹤 ☞see also blue crane verb [intransitive , transitive ] to lean or stretch over sth in order to see sth better; to stretch your neck （为看得更清楚而）探着身子；伸长（脖子） (+ adv./prep.) ◆ People were craning out of the windows and waving. 人们把头探出窗外挥手致意。 cranesth ◆ She craned her neckto get a better view of the stage. 她伸长了脖子看舞台，好看清楚些。 crane / kreɪn ; NAmE kreɪn /
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