wrenches

英 [ˈrentʃɪz]

美 [ˈrentʃɪz]

v.  猛拉; 猛扭; 猛拧; 扭伤(脚踝、肩膀等); 使痛苦，使十分难过(尤指以致哭喊出声)
n.  扳钳; 扳手; (离别的)痛苦，难受; 猛扭; 猛拉
wrench的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 猛拉;猛拧;猛拽
  If youwrenchsomething that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it.
  1. He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand...
     他感觉有两个人在使劲拽他手里的手提箱。
  2. He wrenched off his sneakers...
     他使劲儿脱下运动鞋。
  3. They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.
     他们使劲拽开后座车门，跳进了她的车子。
• VERB 挣脱;挣开
  If youwrenchyourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held.
  1. She wrenched herself from his grasp...
     她从他手里挣脱开来。
  2. He wrenched his arm free...
     他把手臂挣脱开来。
  3. She tore at one man's face as she tried to wrench free...
     她试图挣脱时朝一个男子的脸上抓去。
  4. I wrenched my hand away from my attacker.
     我用力把手从袭击者手里挣脱出来。
• VERB 扭伤(关节)
  If youwrenchone of your joints, you twist it and injure it.
  1. He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
     他因摔倒而严重扭伤了脚踝。
• N-SING (离别时的)痛苦，愁楚
  If you say that leaving someone or something isa wrench, you feel very sad about it.
  1. I always knew it would be a wrench to leave Essex after all these years...
     我一直心里清楚过了这么多年后离开埃塞克斯会非常痛苦。
  2. Many of the things are of great sentimental value and it is going to be a wrench parting with them...
     其中很多东西都具有重要的情感价值，令人难以割舍。
  3. Although it would be a wrench, we would all accept the challenge of moving abroad.
     虽然移居海外会很痛苦，但我们都愿意接受这个挑战。
• 扳钳；活动扳手
  Awrenchor amonkey wrenchis an adjustable metal tool used for tightening or loosening metal nuts of different sizes.
• PHRASE 作梗;阻挠
  If someonethrows a wrenchorthrows a monkey wrenchinto a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  1. Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
     他们的代表团本周提出了各种细枝末节的反对意见，极在地阻挠了进程。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 throw a spanner in the works

双语例句

• Wrenches should not be used on valves equipped with a hand wheel.
  不应在装有手轮的钢瓶上使用扳手。
• Edward: yes, that's it, the small box next to my wrenches. quick, it's urgent.
  爱德华：对，就是在我的扳旁边的那个小盒子，快点，急著要的。
• Sorry, but there are no more of these wrenches left; we have sold out.
  很抱歉，这批扳钳没有货，我们已经全部卖光了。
• "A Palestinian child crying in Gaza wrenches a mother's heart in Ankara," Erdogan told the Arab League in Cairo on Tuesday, using language calculated to delight Arab masses.
  「加萨地区一名哭泣的巴勒斯坦儿童，会让安卡拉一名母亲柔肠寸断。」艾尔段日前在开罗对阿拉伯国家联盟演说时表示。他精心算计的修辞语言，取悦了阿拉伯大众。
• In the presence of unknown required wrenches, the required wrench set was taken to be the unit ball centered at the origin of the wrench space.
  在外力旋量未知的情况下，所需力旋量集常选以力旋量空间原点为中心的单位球。
• The grasp wrench set may adopt the convex hull or Minkowski sum of the primitive contact wrenches for minimizing the sum or maximum of normal force components.
  为使法向力之和或最大法向力最小化，抓取力旋量集可采用原始力旋量的凸包或它们Minkowski和。
• The compounds with the fewest side effects are the ones that drop their monkey wrenches selectively, slotting seamlessly into grooves on the surfaces of their target proteins& and leaving other proteins untouched.
  那些几乎没有什么副作用的化合物，能选择性地进行攻击并天衣无缝地插入它们的靶蛋白表面的槽内，而使其他蛋白质丝毫不受损。
• Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat.
  有时候，我们狗儿英年早逝，去得太快，去得太突，让你撕心裂肺。
• This thesis generalizes this approach to cover point contact with friction and soft finger contact. The sets of feasible contact forces, feasible resultant wrenches, consistent infinitesimal motions, and consistent functional movements are defined. Their properties and relationships are clarified with distinct figures.
  本文把它推广到摩擦点接触和软指接触；定义了可行接触力集、可行合力旋量集、相容无穷小运动集和相容有效运动集；图文并茂地阐明了它们的性质和相互间的关系。
• Design of the Die for Both-Ended Circular Wrenches The variable hexagonal box spanner is the synthesis of the manual screw spanner and the hexagonal box spanner.
  双头套筒扳手模具设计可变六角套筒扳手则是对手动螺丝扳手和六角套筒扳手的综合。