starting gate
起跑门,启动门,起动门,起跑线
Definitions
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- : any of various types of movable barriers for lining up and giving an equal start to the entries in a horse or dog race.
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The New York Islanders are looking down at the rest of the East division despite stumbling out of the starting gate.
Running shoes will become more comfortable over time, but they should fit properly right out of the starting gate.
The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.
“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.
“But the laws of Poloeland and those of Flatland are different,” said Amalatok, starting another objection.
But,” said the prime minister of Flatland, starting a difficulty, “who is to be greatest chief?
We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.
Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.