crank up

英 [kræŋk ʌp]

美 [kræŋk ʌp]

使（机器或设备）提高效率; 启动（机器或设备）; 开大，调高（音量）; 使增加; 使增强

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使(机器或设备)提高效率
  If youcrank upa machine or a device, you make it function harder or at a greater level.
  1. Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
     把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。
• PHRASAL VERB 启动(机器或设备)
  If youcrank upa machine or device, you start it.
  1. ...May's warm weather, which caused Americans to crank up their air conditioners.
     5月份的温热天气使得美国人打开了空调
• PHRASAL VERB 开大，调高(音量)
  If youcrank upthe volume of something, you turn it up until it is very loud.
  1. Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system...
     有人调大了公共广播系统的音量。
  2. By about six, they're cranking the music up loud again.
     到6点左右，他们又把音乐声音开大了。
• PHRASAL VERB 使增加;使增强
  Tocranksomethingupmeans to increase it or make it more intense.
  1. The incident that cranked up the fear was the murder of Brian Smith...
     布赖恩·史密斯被谋杀的案子让人们更加恐惧。
  2. The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
     执法部门加大了调查力度。

英英释义

verb

• rotate with a crank
  Synonym:crank
• start by cranking
  1. crank up the engine
  Synonym:crank

双语例句

• Given time, it could crank itself up for a major crisis.
  假以时日，它才能曲折成长到足以应付大危机。
• Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
  把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。
• The incident that cranked up the fear was the murder of Brian Smith
  布赖恩·史密斯被谋杀的案子让人们更加恐惧。
• Now, you can start thinking about including multiple pages or sheets in the same spreadsheet, adding formulas, and even including graphs so that you can really crank up the level of your output!
  现在，您可以开始考虑在一个电子表格中包含多个页面或工作表，添加公式，甚至包含曲线图，这样，您就可以真正提高您的输出水平了。
• If the reforms do fizzle, the government could well try to boost the economy again by deploying the old approach of big infrastructure spending and ordering state-owned banks to crank up their lending – precisely the model that many analysts say has become a blueprint for unsustainable growth.
  如果改革最终以失败收场，政府将再次通过以往的方式提振经济&大力投资基础设施，授意国有银行加大放贷。许多分析师表示，正是这样一种模式为经济增长的不可持续性埋下了伏笔。
• Will you please help me to crank up the engine?
  请你帮助我用曲柄发动引擎好吗？
• A good playlist can do wonders for your spirit, so slip on some headphones and crank up the tunes.
  一张合适的播放列表可以激发你的灵感，所以，带上你的耳机调高音量吧。
• Lower hydroelectric and nuclear output has forced some countries to crank up more costly oil-burning generators, sending energy prices soaring.
  水力发电和核发电量下降，迫使一些国家加快使用成本更高的燃油发电机，从而推动能源价格飞涨。
• The manger wants us to crank up the production line. Manage the cutting production and administer its personnel, define their training and development needs.
  管理人员希望我们提高生产线的作业速度。管理切片的生产，并确定相关人员的培训需求。
• My car won't start, I don't know why, it just won't crank up.
  我的车就是发不动，我不知道为什么，它就是发不起来。