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单词 trial balloon
释义

trial balloon

noun
A tentative measure taken or statement made to see how a new policy will be received: different members of the cabinet are sending up one trial balloon after another...
  • In other words, the panel will have some success, for example, in serving as a trial balloon for economic policies and in cultivating a new generation of economic and financial officials.
  • Buried inside the ‘Economic Report of the President’ was a trial balloon for an approach that would fix the problem of the lower manufacturing jobs numbers.
  • From time to time, however, the ‘orthodox school’ of historians and academics, as Windschuttle calls his adversaries, float a trial balloon to test a different approach.

Origin

1930s: from translation of French ballon d'essai.

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