crank up

基本解释

Crank up the power, and it can emit a warning tone so loud that anyone in its path would have no choice but to cover their ears and run.
加大功率，就能发出一种警告的音调，这种音调非常之大，在它的所及范围之内的任何人听到都只能捂起耳朵逃跑。
A few months later Eric Lefkofsky, InnerWorkings' founder, caught whiff of Mason's plans and offered him $1 million of angel capital to crank up the hidden-agenda site.
几个月之后，InnerWorkings的创办人埃里克·列夫科夫斯基（Eric Lefkofsky）嗅探到了梅森的计划，给了他100万美元的天使基金来启动这个揭露隐藏动机的网站。
You can crank up the disaster recovery environment and check out what it takes to complete the steps — maybe even script the steps before making the change to your primary environment.
可以启动灾难恢复环境，查明完成步骤需要什么 — 甚至可以编写执行步骤的脚本，然后再修改主环境。

If nobody home, pile kid into Nissan, crank up heater, drive to— Our Lady of Sorrows?
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Simply crank up the heat to keep your phone from freezing to death.
ENGADGET
It took the Internet, though, to really crank up the information pitching machine.
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