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springboard

/spring-bawrd, -bohrd/US // ˈsprɪŋˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd //UK // (ˈsprɪŋˌbɔːd) //

跳板,弹簧板,弹板,弹跳板

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
    • : a flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps.
    • : 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.
  1. 1
    • : to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard.

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Examples

  • Adofo said he hoped the events would be a springboard to involve more residents in their community and provide outlets for them to engage in the self-determination championed by King.

  • They hope to use that as a springboard to build interest in the commercial product, which should be available some time later this year.

  • Financial Garden also teaches kids how to start their own businesses and be financially sustainable using their talents and passions as a springboard.

  • He wanted to highlight how we could use the moon as a springboard to expand human civilization into the rest of the solar system.

  • Amanda Stone says Olly uses an initial customer purchase as a springboard to pitch additional products to the consumer.

  • ABC had effectively removed the launching coil on its Modern Family springboard.

  • Marie Claire editor in chief Anne Fulenwider said she has no comment about Mam using her magazine as a springboard for redemption.

  • But, like a traditional shaman, Coltrane clearly believed that the drums served as a springboard to a higher order of engagement.

  • But sometimes heritage is an irrepressibly fascinating springboard for talent.

  • The D.C. Circuit has been their springboard for rear-guard actions against the administration, and they want to preserve it.

  • One after the other the boys ran up the springboard until only Jim and the stranger were left.

  • A log thrust up suddenly beneath Cottrells feet and threw him into the air as if he had been shot from a springboard.

  • I've always had a horror of being married for a living or for a home or as an experiment or a springboard.

  • She slid her forefeet a little way down the grassy side and went out over the water as if the bank had been a springboard.

  • Early in the performance a series of flying leaps from a springboard, in which all the acrobats took part, was introduced.