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bootstrap

/boot-strap/US // ˈbutˌstræp //UK // (ˈbuːtˌstræp) //

自举,引导,引导层,引导剂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a boot to facilitate pulling it on.
    • : a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something: He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : relying entirely on one's efforts and resources: The business was a bootstrap operation for the first ten years.
    • : self-generating or self-sustaining: a bootstrap process.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    boot·strapped, boot·strap·ping.

    • : Computers. boot.
    • : to help without the aid of others: She spent years bootstrapping herself through college.

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Examples

  • Awotona put his entire life savings into Calendly and managed to bootstrap it for years before taking a $350 million funding round led by OpenView and Iconiq.

  • “We could start an algorithm that initially does not have much intelligence inside it, and watch it bootstrap itself all the way up potentially to AGI,” Clune says.

  • The offset thing that we think will stand up is if you gather money from companies and consumers to bootstrap the market for clean steel and clean cement.

  • It was also at this point I realized that, despite being in the midst of a pandemic, we had managed to bootstrap our way through and we had a product and customers.

  • No, I’m there as someone who spent the first eight years of my life in the Bronx, who understands what it means to have to bootstrap yourself.

  • The actual gunmen had cited Osama bin Laden as their motive, but TTP was eager to bootstrap.

  • Unlike silly examples involving broccoli and cell phones, that so-called “bootstrap” argument is sound.

  • The skeleton compiler acts as a bootstrap for introducing more sophisticated facilities.

  • The ground is covered with stately temples of various designs, all of which I am told are consecrated to Bootstrap-lifting.

  • As I stand watching, a card is handed to me, informing me that a lady will do my Bootstrap-lifting at five dollars per lift.

  • I consult these—for my legs have given out in the effort to visit and inspect all phases of the Bootstrap-lifting practice.

  • In the few minutes before Bootstrap loomed near, they filled the bottom of the cabin with blankets.