v. 用脚踏启动(摩托车); 促使…开始; 使(项目)尽快启动 kick-start的过去分词和过去式
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VERB 使快速重新启动;使…重新开始 To kick-start a process that has stopped working or progressing is to take a course of action that will quickly start it going again.
The President has chosen to kick-start the economy by slashing interest rates. 总统选择通过大幅降低利率来重新拉动经济增长。
Kick-start is also a noun.
The housing market needs a kick-start. 房地产市场需要刺激。
VERB 用脚踏启动(摩托车) If you kick-start a motorcycle, you press the lever that starts it with your foot.
He lifted the bike off its stand and kick-started it. 他将摩托车撑脚架往上一提,开始蹬车启动。
He lifted the bike off its stand and kick-started it. 他将摩托车撑脚架往上一提,开始蹬车启动。
They kick-started sales by giving Nickelodeon a share of revenue in exchange for commercial time. 他们同意尼克儿童频道参与销售收入的分成,以此为条件,拿到了该频道的广告时段,开始了他们的销售业务。
The excitable entrepreneur kick-started his way to becoming a millionaire when he innocently began trading marbles with friends in the playground. 这位白手起家的百万富翁最初也只是在操场上和朋友们买卖弹球。
In the capital he broadened access to health and education, kick-started long-delayed transport projects and ousted incompetent bureaucrats. 在雅加达,他扩大了医疗保险和教育的覆盖范围,启动了拖延已久的交通项目,并罢免了无能的官员。
The "father of the personal computer" who kick-started the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen has died at the age of68. 开启微软创建者比尔·盖茨和保罗·艾伦人生事业的“个人电脑之父”,亨利·爱德华·罗伯茨逝世,享年68岁。
I walked through the creaky, old gate again and kick-started the motorcycle. 我又一次走过那扇古老的晃晃悠悠的大门,发动了摩托车。
We saw first-hand how the Asian crisis of 1997-98 spawned a raft of opportunities for highly skilled professionals, and, in effect, kick-started the Asian hedge fund industry's growth that accelerated through to 2006. 我们亲眼见证了1997-98年的亚洲危机如何为高技能的专业人才创造了大量机遇,并在实质上启动了亚洲对冲基金业的增长,这种加速增长一直持续到2006年。
Meanwhile, the technology that kick-started the revolution marches on. 与此同时,能引发页岩燃气开发革命的技术则越来越成熟。
Apple kick-started the revolution just four years ago, when it made available a toolkit for third-party developers to build apps for its iPhone in March 2008. 苹果在4年前启动这一革命,2008年3月,该公司为第三方开发人员提供了一个工具包,为其iPhone制作App。
China has kick-started a major plan to internationalise the renminbi and the process is likely to be faster than many expect, according to HSBC. 汇丰银行(hsbc)表示,中国已启动一项人民币国际化的重大计划,进程可能快于许多人的预期。
His provocative reasoning on a host of topics kick-started modern British philosophy. 他对大量主题的推理发人深省,开启了现代英国哲学的先河。
Being committed to achieving a big, seemingly impossible goal reconnects us to the passion that first kick-started our businesses. 致力于一个宏伟的、看起来不可能的目标使得我们拥有第一个吃螃蟹而首先开创先河的激情。
In China, the new rules kick-started the mortgage process and gave ordinary citizens a hefty chunk of collateral to finance other big-ticket purchases. 在中国,这些新规定启动了抵押贷款进程,使普通居民将手中的房屋变为主要抵押品,进而为其它大额采购提供融资。