| 单词 | jumping-off place |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjumping-off place jumping-off place n. (a) a place at which one jumps off from a conveyance or alights at the end of a journey, or from which one jumps off into the region beyond; also transferred and figurative; (b) North American a place regarded as being the farthest limit of civilization or settlement; a very remote place; the extreme limit of the earth; also figurative; (c) a starting-point for aircraft or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > the remotest part or place utmostc825 world-endOE world's endc1275 utteresta1300 utmostsa1382 uttermost1382 uttermosta1390 arsea1600 apogee1670 jumping-off place1826 Timbuctoo1863 arse-end1896 ass-end1960 society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > starting-off point for aircraft jumping-off place1909 1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 366 Being, as they phrase it, the ‘jumping off place’, it is necessarily the resort of desperate, wicked, and strange creatures who wish to fly away from poverty, infamy, and the laws. 1828 A. Sherburne Mem. (1831) xi. 234 Ilean point was denominated the ‘jumping-off place’. 1834 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 68 Yarmouth, the jumping-off place of Nova Scotia. 1834 H. M. Brackenridge Recoll. x. 111 I had no jumping off or jumping up place, like those who prepare their exordium and perorations, and leave the body of the speech to take care of itself. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 64 Where shall I find words suitable to describe the peculiarities of that unholy spot? 'Tis, in fact, the jumping-off place. 1847 W. I. Paulding in J. K. & W. I. Paulding Amer. Comedies 197 I have hunted all over them parts, almost clean out to the jumping off place of creation. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) x. 70 It is the jumping-off place of Arctic navigators—our last point of communication with the outside world. 1899 B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana xv. 266 He had come to a jumping-off place in his life—why had they not let him jump? 1900 Daily News 16 Feb. 6/2 If we may borrow a figure from South African politics, the Pamirs are a ‘jumping off place’ for the Russian invaders of Afghanistan and India. 1909 F. Ash Trip to Mars xvii. 131 A narrow platform which had been erected as a ‘jumping-off place’ for fliers. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 14/2 The Governments demanded that their aeroplanes should be transported in crates, or towed with folded wings to their jumping-off places. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 37 Today the nation would be equally amazed if a man of his ability thought it worth his while to prefer the woolsack even to the stool of an office boy as a jumping-off place for his ambition. 1953 F. Stark Coast of Incense 242 The way to carry out an adventure is to organize the jumping-off place as near to its borders as possible. 1964 D. Jenness Eskimo Admin. II. 14 Archdeacon Stuck described Herschel Island during the whaling period as ‘the world's last jumping-off place, where no law existed and no writs ran’. < as lemmas |
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