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ratchet

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ˈrætʃɪt
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释义

n. 棘轮;棘齿 vt. 安装棘轮于;松脱 [ 复数 ratchets 第三人称单数 ratchets 现在分词 ratcheting 过去式 ratcheted 过去分词 ratcheted ]

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The chair has a ratchet below it to adjust the height.
这把椅子下面有一个棘轮来调整高度。
He fears inflation will ratchet up as the year ends.
他担心通胀会随着年底临近而只升不降。
We're trying to ratchet down the administrative costs.
我们正想法使行政管理的成本稳步降低。

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by enabling proteins buried in the muscle fibers to lock togetherand ratchet towards each other,pulling the muscle tight.
“Hey, nobody’s in this part of the building,so let's ratchet back that air conditioningthat’s otherwise blasting.”
then turns exponential before plateauing at full market adoption.We see this exponential growth starting to ratchet upin sector after sector
and that's just the way it is.When you ratchet up requirements as colleges have done,what you do is you create a crazy competition
I mean that's not a gamble I want to take,so let's ratchet up that reliability to 99 percent..99 to the 130th power is ...
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