单词 | springboard |
释义 | springboard /spring"bawrd', -bohrd'/, n. 1. a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring. 2. a flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps. 3. something that supplies the impetus or conditions for a beginning, change, or progress; a point of departure: a lecture to serve as a springboard for a series of seminars. v.t. , v.i. 4. to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard. [1865-70; SPRING + BOARD] |
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