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trial balloon

试验气球,试探性气球,试管气球,试探气球

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a statement, program, or the like issued publicly as a means of determining reactions in advance: The speech was a trial balloon for a new law.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

  • The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.

  • He lambasts the case as without evidence, an unfair trial, and damaging for the American reputation.

  • While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.

  • The challenge was accepted and the hay-wagon driven round and the trial commenced.

  • No doubt it will be a trial for Miss Rowan, but I think she would feel better to have her father buried here.

  • For, at that moment Squinty stood up on his hind legs, as the boy had taught him, and walked over toward the big balloon basket.

  • Squinty cuddled down in the basket of the balloon, between two bags full of something, and shivered.

  • He consented to the trial, receiving Planner's solemn promise that, in the event of failure, it should be the last.