levers

英 [ˈliːvəz] 美 [ˈlevərz]

n.  (车辆或机器的)操纵杆，控制杆; 杠杆; 施压的行为
v.  (用杠杆)撬动
lever的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

  1. See also: Push the tiny lever on the lock... The taps have a lever to control the mix of hot and cold water. gear lever
  2. 杠杆；撬棒
    A lever is a long bar, one end of which is placed under a heavy object so that when you press down on the other end you can move the object.
    1. VERB 撬动；撬起；用力移动
      If you lever something in a particular direction, you move it there, especially by using a lot of effort.
      1. Neighbours eventually levered open the door with a crowbar...
        邻居们最终用一根铁撬把门撬开了。
      2. Insert the fork about 6in. from the root and simultaneously lever it backwards...
        将耙子插入到离根部约6英寸的地方并同时向后扳。
      3. Alex levered himself up from the sofa.
        亚历克斯从沙发上撑扶着站了起来。
    2. N-COUNT （用作施加压力等的）手段，方法
      A lever is an idea or action that you can use to make people do what you want them to do, rather than what they want to do.
      1. Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
        激进的好战派想要继续利用人质作筹码来换取西方的让步。
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    双语例句

    1. I was confronted with an array of knobs, levers, and switches.
      我面对的是一大堆旋钮、控制杆和开关。
    2. It's one of the most powerful levers in the classroom, says Anand.
      它是课堂上最强大的杠杆之一，阿南德说。
    3. Technology isn't just about wires and widgets and levers and code.
      科技不只是工具和电线杆和代码。
    4. It lacked the basic levers of governance to restore credible economic management.
      希腊缺乏恢复可信经济管理所需的基本治理机制。
    5. Handwheels, Chainwheels, Bevel Gears, Levers, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Cylinders and electric motors.
      手轮，链轮，锥齿轮，杠杆，气动和液动缸体，电动。
    6. A system of levers that moves a felt hammer to strike the strings when a key is depressed.
      当击键盘时移动小锤敲击琴弦的杠杆系统。
    7. The linkage may consist of a series of interconnected levers and rods, or levers and a cable.
      相连部分由一系列相关的拉杆和轴或拉杆和链索所组成。
    8. Dials and sliders are idioms borrowed directly from Mechanical-Age metaphors of rotating knobs and sliding levers.
      刻度盘和滑块都是直接从机械时代借用过来的习惯用法，它们分别对应旋转控制钮和滑动控制杆。
    9. Control panel overwhelms with levers, buttons and lights.
      满是杠杆，按钮和灯的控制面板。
    10. We hold the president responsible for the economy, even though he has few economic levers at his command.
      我们也认为，总统应对国家的经济发展负责。即使他们掌控的经济调节杠杆很有限。
    11. The system used levers to control the distance that the intake valves were lifted off their seats.
      该系统使用杠杆来控制这个距离以致进气阀抬离他们的底座。
    12. With the principle of buoyancy or the law of levers.
      跟浮力法则和杠杆原理都无关。
    13. They help you differentiate and expose the knobs and levers you need to drive your business.
      它们会帮助你区分并暴露出你需要驱动业务的“把手”和“杠杆”。
    14. Levers and pulleys are simple machines.
      杠杆和滑轮是简单机械。
    15. It was much more that shift levers with detents.
      它做更多的变化与制动器的杠杆。
    16. Spindle feeds and speeds are controlled by selector levers which engage the proper gears in the drill head.
      主轴的进能量和转速是通过选速杆使主轴箱中的适当齿轮相啮合而控制的。
    17. In high school we learned a lot of laws about pulleys and levers used in different ways.
      在高中我们已学过许多有关不同用途的滑轮和杠杆的定律。
    18. It is, after all, one of the few big levers the government can pull.
      毕竟，这是政府能够运用的为数不多的几项重要手段之一。
    19. Many composition of magic have applied the laws of physics, levers, inclined plane mechanics and so on.
      许多魔术的构成，都运用了物理原理，杠杆，斜面等力学原理。
    20. Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
      教育与工作是提高民族素质的杠杆。
    21. For now this arguably makes sense, as the efficacy of traditional monetary levers remains poor.
      就目前而言，可以说这种做法是有道理的，因为传统货币杠杆的功效仍不明显。
    22. We just seem to lack the levers.
      我们似乎只是缺少手段。
    23. This mechanism also includes other levers such as delivery period, the way of payment.
      另外，协调机制还包括其它一些杠杆，比如交货期和付款方式等。
    24. Yet Mr Obama keeps pulling levers that do not work.
      然而，奥巴马一直在拉动根本不起作用的杠杆。
    25. Of the three levers used to narrow inequality-taxation, government spending and Regulation-the tax system changed the fastest.
      用来缩小不平等的三大手段征税、政府支出及政府调控中，税收系统改变最为迅速。
    26. Other fundamental machine elements have evolved from wheel and levers.
      其它的基本机械零件是在轮子和杠杆的基础上发展而成的。
    27. Close locking levers on the partition grille, starting at the seats.
      关闭隔离格栅上的锁定杆，从座椅开始。
    28. Manipulate the gears and levers of a machine
      熟练操纵机器的排挡和变速杆
    29. Ejector seat levers can only be used once, and their consequences are significant and irreversible.
      弹射座椅操纵杆只能用一次，它的使用将引起重要的变化，而且这个过程是不可逆的。
    30. We stand ready to use all policy levers to underpin confidence and the recovery.
      我们已准备好使用各种政策杠杆巩固市场信心和经济复苏。
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