wrench
n.扳钳,扳手,猛扭,痛苦,扭伤,歪曲vt.猛扭,使扭伤,曲解,抢,折磨vi.猛扭,绞痛
英文释义
v. t. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
v. t. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
v. t. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
v. t. Means; contrivance.
v. t. An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
v. t. The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
n. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
n. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
词干
wrench 猛拉
→ 来自wer,弯,转,拧,词源同wring,wrest。引申义猛拉。
