n.棘轮效应；渐近管制；联轴节；离合器
v.装棘轮机构于；像棘轮般转动；渐变（ratchet的ing形式）
betrays a scratchy throat crossword───背叛了一个喉咙发痒的填字游戏
ratchet meets sonic───棘轮与音速
scratched out───划掉；勾去；挖成；勉强做到
ratchets usa───ratchets美国
brownian ratchet───布朗棘轮
scratches on glasses───眼镜上的划痕
ratchet wrench───[五金]棘轮扳手
ratchet set───棘轮组
scratch team───临时团队
scratching feet───抓脚
and 2011, Banks face a steady ratcheting up of capital-to-asset ratios.───和2011年里，银行面临着稳定逐步提高的资本充足率。
So with the U.S. economy in a recession, Google is ratcheting back spending and cutting new projects.───因此，随着美国经济步入衰退，谷歌也在削减支出并裁减新项目。
population increase has been ratcheting downward.───人口增长率一直在步步下降。
They face a lot of competition, and right now they seem to be ratcheting up the price competition.───它面临很多的竞争，而且现在的价格竞争似愈演愈烈。
This was not a situation where the geophysical stresses were ratcheting up in a sequence that demands release.───这是不是地球物理强调棘轮在一个序列中，要求释放的情况。
It's trying to run its own monetary policy, raising interest rates and ratcheting back bank credit to curb inflation.───它努力实施自己的货币政策，通过加息并回笼银行信贷来遏制通货膨胀。
But I don't think it's a significant enough ratcheting up to actually turn a corner in a constructive way.───我认为这是由于华盛顿压力越来越大，但我不认为这种压力会真的大到足以扭转为建设性的途径。
Ratcheting up the time limit on a regular basis becomes a reasonable way of approximating that perpetuity.───定期地逐渐抬高保护年限是接近永久保护的不错方法。
Under the surface, however, they were ratcheting up their risk-taking.───然而，在这种表相之下，它们变得越来越喜欢冒险。
Now that Obama is in full re-election mode, the labor union bosses seem to be ratcheting down the rhetoric of their anti-trade demagoguery, at the behest we assume, of Obama’s advisers.
All the PCs are super heroic , ratcheting the entire power level the campaign.
The rate of population increase has been ratcheting downward.
How much did he slow down the Mac effort, instead of advancing it, by ratcheting up the stress level?
Just as it was getting dark, pirates fired a tracer bullet "toward the Bainbridge", further heightening the sense that the incident was ratcheting up, the official said.
The government was accused of ratcheting up pressure on the health services.
Netscape Communications will announce new Internet products for businesses today, ratcheting up the pressure on Microsoft.
Hendrix further confuses matters with the line "that is my story" before ratcheting the creepiness up considerably.
And all the time Banks keeps ratcheting up the suspense.