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调高，增加：指提高或增加某物的数量、速度或强度；
启动：启动机械设备，通常指使用曲柄启动；
推广：用赞美的话语描述。
crank up // [ cranking cranked cranks ]
动词词组 If you crank up a machine or device, you turn it on higher. 调高
May's warm weather caused Americans to crank up their air conditioners.
5月温暖的天气使美国人都调高了空调的力度。
转动曲柄起动
... crank up 把声量调大 nicely 和善地，和颜悦色地 moustache 小胡子 ...
... 转动曲柄摇动：cranking 转动曲柄起动：crank up 转动平衡器：rotary balancer ...
Crank Up(曲柄回转), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
... disc crank 圆盘曲柄 ; 圆盘形曲柄 ; 盘形曲拐 Crank Up 曲柄回转 ; 曲轴回转 ; 转动曲柄起动 ; 开动 crank handle 手摇柄 ; 曲柄插手 ; 手摇曲柄 ; 曲柄摇手 ...
May's warm weather caused Americans to crank up their air conditioners.
5月温暖的天气使美国人都调高了空调的力度。
Crank up the clock cycles.
加快时钟周期。
Are nasty drafts forcing you to crank up the heat?
那些可恶乱窜的气流迫使你打开暖气？
If nobody home, pile kid into Nissan, crank up heater, drive to Our Lady of Sorrows?
Simply crank up the heat to keep your phone from freezing to death.
It took the Internet, though, to really crank up the information pitching machine.