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 on the pedals, a chain looped on the steering wheel, a phone controlling it all. The ride itself, they say, is a bit jerky.
  扳手在踏板上，链条在方向盘上，一部电话就控制着这一切。驾驶的过程本身据说会有些颠簸。
• Design of the Die for Both-Ended Circular Wrenches
  双头套筒扳手模具设计
• The main contributions are as follows: Based on the linear dependency of constraint screws under different geometrical conditions, a straightforward classification of constraint screw system is proposed and the corresponding constrained motion is obtained by reciprocal relations between twists and wrenches.
  根据约束螺旋在空间不同几何条件下的线性相关性对约束螺旋系进行分类，并通过螺旋理论的互逆定理获取每种约束螺旋系所约束的运动。
• As an assembly tool of the big diameter bolts, hydraulic torque wrenches have many advantages, such as big output torque, easy operation, being able to be used conveniently in the incommodious room, and comparatively precise control of the magnitude of torque.
  液压扭矩扳手作为一种大直径螺栓的装配工具，具有很多的优点，如输出扭矩大，使用方便，能够在狭窄的空间范围内使用，且能够比较准确控制预紧扭矩的大小等。
• 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 enterprise mainly manufactures bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, captive hand tools most other pipeline products, including pipe clamp production scale ranks first in the country counterparts.
  企业主要生产断线钳、管子钳、掳手极其它管道工具的系列产品，其中管子钳生产规模居全国同行之首位。
• And it's an aching, torturous love which wrenches the lower extremities.
  而且是痛苦折磨的扭曲下肢的爱。
• In order to be one on each nut to the pressure, it is recommended to use wrenches or nut fastening the measuring device Note: At this point if the device is leak-free state, may cause burning packing.
  为了在每个螺母上获一至的压力，建议用扳手或相关的计量装置紧固螺母注意：此时装置如果处于无泄漏状态，可能引起盘根燃烧。
• The principal expounded fusing wrenches Kong automatic processing machine tool design concepts, all levels of mechanical body work principles in the design of the following criteria, design truly become one of its scientific, rigorous, creative modern automatic processing tools.
  主要阐述了引信扳手孔自动加工机床的设计理念，各级机械机构的工作原理，在设计当中遵循的准则，真正把它设计成为一台科学的、严谨、具有创造性的现代化自动加工机床。
• Torque wrenches offer the precision measurement needed to tighten fasteners.
  力矩扳手可以提供禁锢螺栓所需的精确力矩计量。