1MOVE something OR somebodyto move something with a lever 〔用杠杆〕撬动
lever something off/up/out etc
He levered the stone into place.
他把石头撬到位。
2lever yourself up (also lever yourself onto/out of etc something) to move your body by pushing on something with your arms to help you 撑着某物使自己起来
He slowly levered himself up.
他慢慢地撑起身。
3LEAVE A JOB OR ORGANIZATIONto make someone leave a particular job, situation etc 挤走〔某人〕
lever somebody out
They’re trying to lever him out of his job.
他们正设法排挤他离职。
Examples from the Corpus
lever• Daniel levered himself out of the sofa and stood up.• Gingerly he reached forward, found a wall and levered himself up against it.• Ross levered himself up, going against the pain, going fast, making his hand stiff from wrist to fingertip.• I would take a Bourbon in one hand and lever off the lid with my two front teeth.• A centralangled cut will make levering out easier 7 Use the crowbar to prise the frame from the wall.• The government, for example, emphasises physicalrenewal and the extent to which public expenditure has leveredprivatesectorinvestment.• He was using Kring to lever the top off the altar.• Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood.
1handle for operating a machine操縱桿ADJECTIVE | VERB + LEVER | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤brake, control, gear, shift (NAmE) 制動桿;控制桿;變速桿➤safety保險桿VERB + LEVER➤move, press, pull, push, release, set移動操縱桿;按操縱桿;拉操縱桿;推操縱桿;鬆開操縱桿;調整操縱桿◇To release the brake, pull the lever.要鬆開剎車,得拉動操縱桿。◇Push the gear lever into first.將變速桿推到 1 擋。◇The machine will stop immediately once the lever is released.一鬆開操縱桿,機器就會馬上停下來。◇Set all three levers to the 0 position.將 3 根操縱桿全部歸零。PREPOSITION➤by a lever, by means of a lever通過操縱桿◇The machine is operated by means of a lever.這台機器通過一個操縱桿操控。PHRASES➤the position of the lever操縱桿的位置lever
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2means of achieving sth途徑ADJECTIVE | VERB + LEVER | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤powerful, useful強有力的手段;有用的途徑VERB + LEVER➤act as, be, give sb, provide (sb with), serve as作為手段;是手段;給某人方法;(為某人)提供途徑▸➤use sth as把⋯用作手段PREPOSITION➤lever against針對⋯的手段◇If this allegation is true, it will give us a useful lever against him.如果這項指控屬實,將會成為我們對付他的有力武器。➤lever for為了⋯的手段◇This could serve as a powerful lever for peace.這能成為維護和平的強有力的手段。