spanner
spanner 英 [ˈspænə(r)] 美 [ˈspænɚ]
n. 扳手；螺丝扳手；测量器；用手掌量的人
名词复数:spanners
- A spanner is a type of adjustable wrench. Outside of North America, spanner is just another word for “wrench.” If Americans want to ruin something, they “throw a wrench into it.” British people “throw a spanner in the works.”
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- n. 扳手；螺丝扳手；测量器；用手掌量的人
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1. On the coasts, where its exporting factories are clustered, bosses are short of workers, and workers short of patience. A spate of strikes has thrown a spanner into the workshop of the world.
在 沿海那些出口工厂扎堆的地区，老板的手中缺少工人，工人的心中耐性不足，一阵狂风骤雨的罢工把扳手掷向了世界这个大工厂。
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2. Her ire slid between us like the spanner from Father’s workshop, straining our hinge.
她的愤怒滑入我们之间，像父亲工作间的那把扳手，在我们相连的骨头上扳扭着。
- spanner (n.) 1630s, a tool for winding the spring of a wheel-lock firearm, from German Spanner, from spannen "to join, fasten, extend, connect," from Proto-Germanic *spannan, from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin" (source also of spin (v.)). Meaning "wrench" is from 1790. Figurative phrase spanner in the works attested from 1921 (Wodehouse).
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