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词汇 spanner
释义 spanner
noun[ C ]
UKuk /ˈspæn.ər/ us /ˈspæn.ɚ/(USwrench)
a metal tool with a shaped end, used to turn nuts and bolts: 扳手,扳子
an open-ended/adjustable/ring spanner可调整/活动/梅花扳手
 
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Idiom


put/throw a spanner in the works

spanner | American Dictionary


spanner
noun[ C ]
Brus/ˈspæn·ər/
wrench

Examples of spanner


spanner
In the inter-organizational information-sharing community, malicious participants, either agents or boundary spanners, are effectively removed from the system.
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.
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.
We do not want to throw any spanners into that particular wheel.
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We need lubricants instead of spanners in the works, conciliation, not compulsion, and arbitration rather than legal enforcement.
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No wonder there are scandals and gold-plated contracts and £300 spanners.
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No doubt he could afford to throw a few planners into the works but not spanners.
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The owner does not have to say that the deficiency is in five-inch spanners, and that nine have gone.
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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.
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Spanners are being put in the works of that gravy train.
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Spanners can be used for various purposes: they can be used for good purposes, and they can be used for bad purposes.
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Screwdrivers and spanners are necessary in munitions factories.
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We are not throwing any spanners into the works, for there are no works to throw them in.
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They are much more apt to see how many spanners they can throw into the works and how many objections they can raise.
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In their policy they think that by throwing in a few more spanners and tools, productivity will be increased.
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