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- a large, tall machine used for moving heavy objects, typically by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam起重机。
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- a moving platform supporting a television or film camera（支承电视或电影摄像机的）机动升降台架。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction stretch out one's neck in order to see something伸长脖子（看）：
she craned forward to look more clearly.
她伸长脖子以看得更清楚些。
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- with obj. stretch out (one's neck) this way伸长（脖子）。
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- with obj. and adverbial move (a heavy object) with a crane（用起重机）吊运（重物）：
the wheelhouse module is craned into position on the hull.
操舵室预制件被起重机吊到了船体的适当位置上。
词源
Middle English:figuratively from CRANE2 （the same sense development occurred in the related German Kran and Dutch kraan （see CRANE2 ）, and French grue）. The verb dates from the late 16th cent.
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- a tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or grey plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances鹤。
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- Family Gruidae: four genera, in particular Grus, and several species, including the Eurasian common crane (G. grus).鹤科：4属, 尤指鹤（拉丁名Grus）, 数种, 包括欧亚的灰鹤（拉丁名G. grus）。
词源
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraan and German Kran, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin grus and Greek geranos.