crank up

英 [kræŋk ʌp]

美 [kræŋk ʌp]

使（机器或设备）提高效率; 启动（机器或设备）; 开大，调高（音量）; 使增加; 使增强

柯林斯词典

PHRASAL VERB 使(机器或设备)提高效率
If youcrank upa machine or a device, you make it function harder or at a greater level.
1. Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
  把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。
PHRASAL VERB 启动(机器或设备)
If youcrank upa machine or device, you start it.
1. ...May's warm weather, which caused Americans to crank up their air conditioners.
  5月份的温热天气使得美国人打开了空调
PHRASAL VERB 开大，调高(音量)
If youcrank upthe volume of something, you turn it up until it is very loud.
1. Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system...
  有人调大了公共广播系统的音量。
2. By about six, they're cranking the music up loud again.
  到6点左右，他们又把音乐声音开大了。
PHRASAL VERB 使增加;使增强
Tocranksomethingupmeans to increase it or make it more intense.
1. The incident that cranked up the fear was the murder of Brian Smith...
  布赖恩·史密斯被谋杀的案子让人们更加恐惧。
2. The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
  执法部门加大了调查力度。

verb

These chemical marks can activate, silence or crank up genes and their actions.
这些化学印记可激活、消除或加剧基因活动。
Given time, it could crank itself up for a major crisis.
假以时日，它才能曲折成长到足以应付大危机。
And, when I play god I can crank up the global mutation rate.
而且，当我扮演上帝时，我能加快全局突变率。
Lower hydroelectric and nuclear output has forced some countries to crank up more costly oil-burning generators, sending energy prices soaring.
水力发电和核发电量下降，迫使一些国家加快使用成本更高的燃油发电机，从而推动能源价格飞涨。
Crank up the clock cycles.
加快时钟周期。
I am not as engaged in my work as my peers, she reflects. To make partner she would have to crank up her commitment – and she just cannot bear to do that.
她若有所思地说道：我不像其他同事那样投入工作了。如果她想成为合伙人，就要更加拼命，而她就是受不了这么拼命。
The legal authorities cranked up the investigation.
执法部门加大了调查力度。
Can you crank up the volume a little bit?
你能把声音调高一点吗？
He needs to crank it up, have himself some fun this weekend.
他需要发动起来，因为这个周末他有个约会。
Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
把助听器调高一两个刻度就可以。