levers是什么意思？

levers

英['levəz] 美['levəz]

• n. <物>杠杆( lever的名词复数 )，操作杆，施压的行为；

例句

• So movie studios now worry less about angering them by pulling digital levers. 因此片商现在换档到数位商品,比较不担心惹恼零售业者.
• The workers can manipulate the gears and levers of a machine skillfully. 工人们能熟练地操纵机件.
• Levers and pulleys are simple machines. 杠杆和滑轮是简单机械.
• 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.
• Figure 10 - 8 : Ejector seat levers have catastrophic results. 图10-8弹射操纵杆具有灾难般的后果.
• Hide the ejector seat levers. 隐藏弹射座椅的操纵杆.
• 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。

英语六级真题

Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light.
出自-2012年6月听力原文
The levers were fitted to the side of the tank next to each other
出自-2012年6月听力原文
If the light was kept steady, the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order.
出自-2012年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （操作机械的）杆，柄，把手
  A lever is a handle or bar that is attached to a piece of machinery and which you push or pull in order to operate the machinery.
  例句
  Push the tiny lever on the lock... 按一下锁上的小柄。 The taps have a lever to control the mix of hot and cold water. 水阀上有一个手柄控制冷热水。
• N-COUNT
  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.
• 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.
  例句
  Neighbours eventually levered open the door with a crowbar... 邻居们最终用一根铁撬把门撬开了。 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。
• 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.
  例句
  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。