crank
crank 英 [kræŋk] 美 [kræŋk]
n. 曲柄；奇想 adj. 易怒的 vt. 装曲柄
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- To crank is to turn or rotate something using a handle or lever. The earliest automobiles required drivers to crank the engine before they could climb in and start driving.
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- n. 曲柄；奇想
- adj. 易怒的
- vt. 装曲柄
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1. It was an old car, and I had to crank it up every morning to get it started.
那是辆旧式汽车，我每天早晨得摇动曲柄才能使它起动。
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2. The body is built from balsa wood, and the wings powered by a wire crank driven by a rubber band.
燕尾蝶的身体是用轻木做的，而翅膀的动力来源为用橡皮圈驱动的金属曲柄。
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3. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
有了一个新想法的人只是个怪人，除非这个想法成功了。
- crank (n.) "bent or vertical handle for turning a revolving axis," Old English *cranc, implied in crancstæf "a weaver's instrument," crencestre "female weaver, spinster," which is related to crincan "to bend, yield," from Proto-Germanic *krank- "bend, curl up" (see cringe).
- crank (v.) 1590s, "to zig-zag, run in a winding course," from crank (n.) "a bend, a crook," hence "a winding," for which see crank (n.). From 1793 as "to bend into a crank shape;" 1834 as "attach a crank to;" meaning "to turn a crank" is first attested 1908, with reference to automobile engines. Related: Cranked; cranking.
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