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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Do not use conventional pipe wrenches.
  不要使用常规管道扳手。
• 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。
• 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。
• The next person strides forward and successfully wrenches the bottle away.
  下一个人跨步上前，成功地抢下了水瓶。
• 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。
• They all stare blank-faced, but one picture, in the middle of a row, seizes the eye and wrenches the mind.
  他们表情木然。但是，在一排照片的中间，有一张特别引人注目，发人深尽。