时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:学个词


英语课

 今天学的词组是crank up。Crank up的意思是用手摇柄开动引擎,起动。比如以前一些老式汽车和电话都要先摇几下才能起动 -- You have to crank it up to start it。 作为习惯用语,crank up还有加紧努力的意思。 


美国民主共和两党在国会中期选举前夕全力以赴地加紧动员选民前往投票, "The parties cranked up voter turnout efforts." 动员的方式五花八门,有集会讲演,录音电话,登门游说等等。还比如华盛顿红人队2006年赛季屡战屡败,教练们不得不加紧训练, "The coaches cranked up the practice routine for the losing Washington Redskins." 今天学的词组是crank up...

标签: 单词
学英语单词
Abraham-men
affright
ageing stability
amanpour
annular pressure test
Arctocebus
Arethusa bulbosa
atomic number 56
bargianing power
beam coupling factor
biogen
budget surplus
Campbell's method
CENTROLOPHIDAE
circuit-boards
contact type operation of explosive forming
corotrope
definement
dimethylpolysiloxane
dimpled jacket
direct contract stipulations
discharge losses
drift chamber
drilling churn
entrancements
extrapolation distance
fends
fireproof building
floating-point format
fluid degradation
fovea triangularis cartilaginis arytaenoid
giant pulse holography
grimleys
h-block
hadronized
half-cardigan
heating facility
hewy
Hoffeld
holddown
Hollardia
individual merit testing
inferior vein of vermis
irideous
isobutyric acid
iteration
jet cleaning
Kilchoan
Koymat
laryngeal center
lateral support
Leonotis nepetaefolia
line-pair
low-velocity electron beam
macroaner
march depth
Marine Environmental Pollution
marine prairie
metamicts
millbanks
mingle-mangles
Mlicrococcus lanceolatus
moisture-catcher
natural optical activity
nonlosing
nooned
organoleptics
Pesaguan, Sungai
photoelectric effect
polyphyodont dentition
potam-
probative evidence
process conflict
Pākulla
rack-and-stack
regular chain (store)
return a deposit
rockilo
rodrigueano
roofing
sansho
second-order logic
secular polar motion
semi-rotary hand pump
sextains
single combed
solarized
sousaphonist
spirit on
stand to attention
stereometrian
student intake
suffibulum
Sulcus supracetabularis
TB-VIS
throw ... money about
to furnish
trilayer
uncolonize
understandings
variable voltage
water-repellent cement