He had assumed at the outset that the scientist was more or less the crank. He had not talked with him many times before he discovered that, far from being in any respect a crank, he was a most able and well- balanced mentality--a genius. The day came when, Dorothy not having returned from a shopping tour, he lingered in the laboratory talking with the father, or, rather, listening while the man of great ideas unfolded to him conceptions of the world that set his imagination to soaring.英文原著 · 《The Dust》
"Why, because he was a crank, sir," Mr. Coulson answered confidentially. "There was no other reason at all. Take this last voyage on the Lusitania, now. He spoke to me the first day out because he couldn't help it, but for pretty well the rest of the journey he either kept down in his stateroom or, when he came up on deck, he avoided me and everybody else. When he did talk, his talk was foolish. He was a good chap at his work, I believe, but he was a crank. Seemed to me sometimes as though that humdrum life of his had about turned his brain.英文原著 · 《The Illustrious Prince》
For the benefit of the sportsman and gun crank who want plain facts and no flapdoodle, the following statistics are offered. To the lay reader this inclusion will be incomprehensible; but I know my gun crank as I am one myself!英文原著 · 《The Land of Footprints》
``When I have been hurt, or when I have talked with annoying cranks, I have tried to let Patience have her perfect work, for those very people, if you have patience with them, may afterward be of help.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
There's nothing infra dig. in being mean to the poor; but not to sympathize with the rich stamps you as middle class." She laughed. Joan was worried. "I told Dad I should only ask him for enough to make up two hundred a year," she explained. "He'll laugh at me for not knowing my own mind."
"I should let him," advised Madge. She grew thoughtful again. "We cranky young women, with our new-fangled, independent ways, I guess we hurt the old folks quite enough as it is."
The bell rang and Madge opened the door herself. It turned out to be Flossie.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Steam Puddling Patent. This was the "pioneer" of the Bessemer process. See Bessemer correspondence, p. 354
1854. A Reversible Rolling Mill without Fly-wheel. This Rolling Mill consists of two combined steam-engines, acting on cranks at right angles, the reversing of the rolls being effected by the link motion. The requisite rolling power is obtained by suitable wheel and pinion gear, so as to be entirely independent of the momentum of a fly-wheel, which is entirely dispensed with. I did not patent the invention.英文原著 · 《An Autobiography》
And then crank the handle so hard they beg you to relent.美剧 · 《Billions》
She's just cranky because she's already seen 30 people read for this today, and we are all so goddamn sick of seeing auditions, so whenever you're ready.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I gave myself the problem of turning a crank in one direction, I gave myself the problem of turning a crank in one direction,演讲 · 《Moving sculpture ~ Arthur Ganson》