| 单词 | spanner |
| 释义 | spanner noun[C] UKuk/ˈspæn.ər/us/ˈspæn.ɚ/(USwrench)ametaltoolwith ashapedend, used toturnnutsandbolts: 扳手，扳子anopen-ended/adjustable/ringspanner可调整／活动／梅花扳手  Dimedrol68/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Tools
Idiomput/throw a spanner in the works spanner| American Dictionaryspanner noun[C] Brus/ˈspæn·ər/wrench Examplesofspannerspanner In the inter-organizational information-sharing community, malicious participants, either agents or boundary spanners, are effectively removed from the system. From theCambridge English Corpus Recall that the inter-personal experiences of an organization's boundary spanners are internalized over time, representing norms, by the organization and manifest ultimately in the building of interorganizational trust. From theCambridge English Corpus The entity fact path of a fact ft denoted by t is a graph, where the nodes represent entities (agents or boundary spanners) that constitute ft's traversal during information sharing. From theCambridge English Corpus We do not want to throw any spanners into that particular wheel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We need lubricants instead of spanners in the works, conciliation, not compulsion, and arbitration rather than legal enforcement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 No wonder there are scandals and gold-plated contracts and £300 spanners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 No doubt he could afford to throw a few planners into the works but not spanners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The owner does not have to say that the deficiency is in five-inch spanners, and that nine have gone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Supposing that in the course of a flight over a distance of two or three miles a pilot were carelessly to jettison spanners at intervals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Spanners are being put in the works of that gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Spanners can be used for various purposes: they can be used for good purposes, and they can be used for bad purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Screwdrivers and spanners are necessary in munitions factories. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not throwing any spanners into the works, for there are no works to throw them in. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are much more apt to see how many spanners they can throw into the works and how many objections they can raise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In their policy they think that by throwing in a few more spanners and tools, productivity will be increased. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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