wrenches

英 [ˈrentʃɪz]

美 [ˈrentʃɪz]

v.  猛拉; 猛扭; 猛拧; 扭伤(脚踝、肩膀等); 使痛苦，使十分难过(尤指以致哭喊出声)
n.  扳钳; 扳手; (离别的)痛苦，难受; 猛扭; 猛拉
wrench的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 猛拉;猛拧;猛拽
  If youwrenchsomething that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it.
  1. He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand...
     他感觉有两个人在使劲拽他手里的手提箱。
  2. He wrenched off his sneakers...
     他使劲儿脱下运动鞋。
  3. They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.
     他们使劲拽开后座车门，跳进了她的车子。
• VERB 挣脱;挣开
  If youwrenchyourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held.
  1. She wrenched herself from his grasp...
     她从他手里挣脱开来。
  2. He wrenched his arm free...
     他把手臂挣脱开来。
  3. She tore at one man's face as she tried to wrench free...
     她试图挣脱时朝一个男子的脸上抓去。
  4. I wrenched my hand away from my attacker.
     我用力把手从袭击者手里挣脱出来。
• VERB 扭伤(关节)
  If youwrenchone of your joints, you twist it and injure it.
  1. He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
     他因摔倒而严重扭伤了脚踝。
• N-SING (离别时的)痛苦，愁楚
  If you say that leaving someone or something isa wrench, you feel very sad about it.
  1. I always knew it would be a wrench to leave Essex after all these years...
     我一直心里清楚过了这么多年后离开埃塞克斯会非常痛苦。
  2. Many of the things are of great sentimental value and it is going to be a wrench parting with them...
     其中很多东西都具有重要的情感价值，令人难以割舍。
  3. Although it would be a wrench, we would all accept the challenge of moving abroad.
     虽然移居海外会很痛苦，但我们都愿意接受这个挑战。
• 扳钳；活动扳手
  Awrenchor amonkey wrenchis an adjustable metal tool used for tightening or loosening metal nuts of different sizes.
• PHRASE 作梗;阻挠
  If someonethrows a wrenchorthrows a monkey wrenchinto a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  1. Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
     他们的代表团本周提出了各种细枝末节的反对意见，极在地阻挠了进程。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 throw a spanner in the works

双语例句

• The grasp wrench set may adopt the convex hull or Minkowski sum of the primitive contact wrenches for minimizing the sum or maximum of normal force components.
  为使法向力之和或最大法向力最小化，抓取力旋量集可采用原始力旋量的凸包或它们Minkowski和。
• The next person strides forward and successfully wrenches the bottle away.
  下一个人跨步上前，成功地抢下了水瓶。
• Design of the Die for Both-Ended Circular Wrenches The variable hexagonal box spanner is the synthesis of the manual screw spanner and the hexagonal box spanner.
  双头套筒扳手模具设计可变六角套筒扳手则是对手动螺丝扳手和六角套筒扳手的综合。
• Wrenches should not be used on valves equipped with a hand wheel.
  不应在装有手轮的钢瓶上使用扳手。
• They all stare blank-faced, but one picture, in the middle of a row, seizes the eye and wrenches the mind.
  他们表情木然。但是，在一排照片的中间，有一张特别引人注目，发人深尽。
• The main contributions are as follows: Based on the linear dependency of constraint screws under different geometrical conditions, a straightforward classification of constraint screw system is proposed and the corresponding constrained motion is obtained by reciprocal relations between twists and wrenches.
  根据约束螺旋在空间不同几何条件下的线性相关性对约束螺旋系进行分类，并通过螺旋理论的互逆定理获取每种约束螺旋系所约束的运动。
• The enterprise mainly manufactures bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, captive hand tools most other pipeline products, including pipe clamp production scale ranks first in the country counterparts.
  企业主要生产断线钳、管子钳、掳手极其它管道工具的系列产品，其中管子钳生产规模居全国同行之首位。
• Design of the Die for Both-Ended Circular Wrenches
  双头套筒扳手模具设计
• Design of design automatic processing machine tool for fusing wrenches kong
  引信扳手孔自动加工机床的设计
• I've seen woodworkers even go as far as to affix the wrenches to the power cables so there is NO chance they'll forget to disconnect the power.
  我看到有的木工在电线上套上扳手，这样他们就不会忘记切断电源了。