trial balloon
试验气球,试探性气球,试管气球,试探气球
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- : 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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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.