Think about what you do when you change gear.

想象一下开车时，你是如何换挡的。

Ove tells her to change gear and she replies that she doesn't know how.

欧维让她换挡，她说不知道该怎么换。

It is no wonder we sometimes find it hard to change gear, and become masters at the art of intimacy.

也难怪我们时常觉得转向亲密发展十分困难。

This expression is based on the idea that a machine or vehicle will change speed when you change the gears.

这个表达源于当你改变机器和车辆的齿轮时，它们的速度也会改变。

Hey, can we change gears for a second?

我能跟你说点别的事吗？

If you just have one speed, you don't have to change the gears.

如果你只有一个速度，你就不必换档。

He changes gears with a domineering gesture of his hand.

他的手不容分说地换了挡。

Any cyclist can climb a difficult hill; you just change gear.

【gear】谁都能骑上难爬的山坡，只要换挡就行了。

The boss expects us to be able to change gear just like that.

【gear】老板希望我们能够像那样该出力时就出力。

Oleg was driving a stick shift, or manual transmission car, and he didn't know how to shift or change gears properly.

奥列格开的是手动挡汽车，他不知道如何正确换档。

The word we use is to shift, " shift." To shift gears means to change gears, to go faster or to go more slowly.

我们用的词是shift， “shift” 。 to shift gears的意思是换挡，走得更快或者走得更慢。

A " stick" refers to the pole or stick that comes out of the transmission, into the center of the car that you use to change gears.

“杆” 是指从变速器出来的杆或杆，进入您用来换档的汽车中心。

In an automatic transmission, you don't have to do any of those things – at least, you don't have to change gears from first gear to, say, fourth or fifth gear.

在自动变速器中，您不必做任何这些事情——至少， 您不必将档位从一档换到四档或五档。