n. 吊车，起重机；鹤
vi. 伸着脖子看；迟疑，踌躇
vt. 用起重机起吊；伸长脖子
n. (Crane)人名；(意、葡)克拉内；(英、法、西)克兰
英 [kreɪn] 美 [kren]
权威例句
- Crane is a kind of bird with very long legs and neck.
鹤是一种腿和脖子都很长的鸟.
来自《简明英汉词典》 - We used a crane to lift the piano into the theatre.
我们使用起重机将钢琴搬进剧场.
来自《简明英汉词典》 - Must we wait till the crane arrives before we start loading?
非要等起重机来了才能装运 吗 ?
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 - They built a crane capable of lifting 150 tons.
他们造了一台能吊起150吨重量的吊车.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 - The crane uplifted the car and moved it to a safer place.
吊车吊起小汽车放到安全的地方.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
中文词源
crane 白鹤，起重机
来自PIE*gere, 鸣叫，拟声词。比较crow, cock, raven.
英文词源
crane
**crane: **[OE] _Crane _is a widespread Indo- European bird-name: related forms such as Latin grūs, Greek _géranos _(source of English geranium, also known as crane’s-bill, from the long pointed ‘beak’ of its fruit), and Welsh _garan _point to a prehistoric Indo-European base *ger-, possibly imitative of the bird’s raucous call. The resemblance of a crane lowering its long neck to feed or drink to the operation of a lifting apparatus with a long jib led to the application of _crane _to the latter in the 14th century (French _grue _and German _kran _show a similar semantic development). _Cranberry _[17] is a borrowing (originally American) of German cranbeere, literally ‘craneberry’, so named from the stamens, which supposedly resemble a beak.
=> cranberry, geranium, pedigree
crane (n.)
Old English cran "large wading bird," common Germanic (cognates: Old Saxon krano, Old High German krano, German Kranich, and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse trani), from PIE *gere-no-, suffixed form of root *gere- (2) "to cry hoarsely," also the name of the crane (cognates: Greek geranos, Latin grus, Welsh garan, Lithuanian garnys "heron, stork"). Thus the name is perhaps an echo of its cry in ancient ears. Metaphoric use for "machine with a long arm" is first attested late 13c. (a sense also in equivalent words in German and Greek).
crane (v.)
"to stretch (the neck)," 1799, from crane (n.). Related: Craned; craning.
