时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


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...



学英语单词
a floor under wages
administrative advice
Afrasian
all gas turbine propulsion
all-aft
alternate order
ambient sound
anaglyta
anascope
arts center
aslet
automatic regulating box
axial temperature distribution
Bejestan
benevolent autocracy
boiler foundation
Buclina
Cardamine agyokumontana
chemical testing
clutch rolling key
conons of taxation
controlled variance
creeping crowfeet
crosscut handsaw
deep suction share
differential gain error
down-the-row thinner
enshrines
estimating according to the results of past fellings
fairy rings
fibrous falc
floatation unit
Flulon
follow in someone's steps
fraks
frisby
fully automation
glycidyl-polymer
greater lip of pudendum
gss
hadl
heatshrinks
hooting
housedog
icing tower
impact-testing apparatus
insulating carboard
jakob boehms
jan gossaert
jankowski
kiddie car
kirtles
linearly independent elements
lubricating oil pressure
lunar retreat hypothesis
may as well
mcgreavy
mental psychotic
minority ethnic
motherchuckers
MUF observed value
nidamental chamber
nubby
obtuse-angled
olympic-quality
open one's mouth wide
original magma
oriocrystal
outage period
overcount
overhead price
paramecium caudatum
pate a choux
pointed stake
polling schemes
qualium
quiet motor
ragequits
relationship-oriented therapy
replicative function
revoluta
salvor
salyer
saw setting machine
schanks
sinicum
slide push fit
somesthetic sensibility
standard luminosity function
street-lighting transformer
tiem
tittivation
to attire oneself in...
to make an abstract of...
Triple Entente
tworoom
ubacs
war-effort
white chauvinism
wiskostatin
world and his wife