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

• He needs to crank it up, have himself some fun this weekend.
  他需要发动起来，因为这个周末他有个约会。
• Crank up some tunes: Play music that brings up good memories.
  制造些音乐：播放音乐能唤起美好记忆。
• I am not as engaged in my work as my peers, she reflects. To make partner she would have to crank up her commitment – and she just cannot bear to do that.
  她若有所思地说道：我不像其他同事那样投入工作了。如果她想成为合伙人，就要更加拼命，而她就是受不了这么拼命。
• Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
  把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。
• Provided regulators do not allow banks to crank up their credit risks, profit margins on loans are restrained along with their volumes.
  假如监管部门不允许银行扩大贷款风险，那么贷款利润率以及放贷额就会受到抑制。
• 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。
• Study on Kinematical Simulation for Crank Swinging up of Remote Control Pruning Branch-avoiding Machine
  遥控自动立木整枝机避让机构曲臂上摆运动仿真的研究
• And, when I play god I can crank up the global mutation rate.
  而且，当我扮演上帝时，我能加快全局突变率。
• Crank up the clock cycles.
  加快时钟周期。
• 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。