jumping-off place

/juhm-ping-awf, -of/US // ˈdʒʌm pɪŋˈɔf, -ˈɒf //

跳板,跳板上,跳板上的东西,跳板式的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
- : an out-of-the-way place; the farthest limit of anything settled or civilized.

nounstarting point

Synonyms

While recommendations, reviews, and ratings are an excellent jumping-off place, never forget the value of trying a game out for yourself!
The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.
He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.
This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.
The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.