crank up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To start something mechanical, an act that often used to involve cranking.
    — Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin.
  2. To muster up the mental energy to do something. idiomatic,reflexive
    — I kept thinking: this has nothing to do with my interests, with what I believe is a desirable subject for literature. I was doing it as a performance. I kept cranking myself up to perform, to meet the demands of the genre. I know this sounds terribly inartistic.
  3. To prepare (something). idiomatic,slang
  4. To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something. idiomatic
    — He cranked up the volume to 11.
  5. To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
    — Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?
  6. To inject heroin. intransitive,slang

词形变化

cranks up present,singular,third-person cranking up participle,present cranked up participle,past cranked up past
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