| 单词 | launch |
| 释义 | launch I. transitive verb 1. a. < launched a looping right to the jaw > < suddenly launched himself from between his guards … and vanished into the rocks and heather, still handcuffed — Philip Rooney > b. < finding another stone, I raised and was about to launch it — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < launch an arrow at a target > specifically < launch a torpedo > < launch a carrier plane > < launch a rocket > < launch a satellite > c. < launch a hostile action > : commit (as troops) to battle < launched his cavalry against them — Tom Wintringham > d. < launched a determined attack on academic criticism — C.I.Glicksberg > < launched a fresh anathema against him — R.W.Southern > < launched a … protest against the political power of the well-to-do — J.D.Hicks > 2. obsolete 3. a. < launch a canoe > < launch a battleship > < launch a lifeboat > b. (1) < launch a daughter in society > < launch a son in business > < launched their peoples on the path of war and conquest — Sir Winston Churchill > (2) < she launched herself on her nursing career > < his massive task begins and he launches himself upon it — Ira Wolfert > < he was now well launched on a speech of his own — Waldo Frank > < pipeline companies now are launched on a … construction and expansion program — Trends > c. (1) < launch an enterprise > < launch a program > < launch a fund drive > < launch a new product > (2) < a literary dinner to launch the book — Newsweek > d. < launched himself upon the intellectual currents of the age — H.O.Taylor > < launch a first-class minstrel company on the road — C.F.Wittke > < a young pair launched their first invitations in the third person — Edith Wharton > 4. obsolete intransitive verb 1. a. < a junco had launched off a chinquapin twig — W.V.T.Clark > < the catapult snagged and the plane overturned before it could launch > b. (1) < launch into a brilliant harangue > < launched into a vigorously rhythmic, sharply accentuated playing of the … prelude — Irving Kolodin > (2) < listened … politely for ten minutes and then launched out — H.J.Laski > 2. a. archaic < the Resolution now in the dock launches on Tuesday — London Gazette > b. < one of the party … had launched off by himself — Appalachia > c. < had launched on his hour of study — Hallam Tennyson > < launch upon the production of films — Jean Begeman > specifically II. < may hold up a launch for days — H.H.Martin > < after launch it could shift targets — Clay Blair > III. 1. archaic 2. |
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