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...

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alaum
alizarin viridin
allocated quotas
aloge
angle measurement network
Aroe
arthro-ophthalmolopathy
baffled reaction chamber
balsam wood
Bazrabelly
bed table
Bieberesque
bisimulations
bondling
booming of plankton
brainsalad
budweis
bungalwo
calliostoma katoi
chiculy
child psychology
climatic divide
connixation
cryphiolite
CSE
Cysticercus fasciolaris
development committee
dnms
Dodge County
Drake Cluster cotton
drunk driver
eng-lish
extraction window
failure distribution function
fire resisting window
five-cent
fuel limit cancellation
genus Cancer
Grenadines
harmonic coordinate system
Hedysarum longigynophorum
Helmighausen
heritable variation
homospheres
Hoshangabad
Hust.
hydroarylation
idants
idiopathic respiratory distress of newborn
impulse noise analysis
infantophobe
insultinator
intent lock
J-card
jianchao
korzybskis
labor/overhead table
layers-out
Luder's bands
Metrolink
mineralise
Mojave Desert
Monkstown
Muscicapidae
neurograms
newly-invented
nonlinear acoustodynamics
origin of grid
otoes
Papillare
Pasiniaxzide
pattern digitizer
pea butter
persicarum oleum
piercest
qas
quantivalenc
r-acetamidopropyl thioacetate
record-playback
ruling grade
scale breaking
schematize
security-minded
sodium sulfide
spark explosion method
steady state cosmology
straddle-type blade root
superior tracheobronchial lymph nodes
swapes
swing check valve
tajiks
tangent point retarder
thallogen
the luck of the Irish
There is no rule without an exception.
two-piece housing
Ukrainianised
unfair dismissal
unilobular cirrhosis
Varecia
write/read
Wöbbelin