| 单词 | launching pad |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaunching pad launching pad n. the area on which a rocket stands for launching; also figurative and transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > use or science of rockets > [noun] > launch > launch pad pad1949 launching pad1951 rocket pad1963 1951 D. C. Cooke & M. Caidin Jets, Rockets & Guided Missiles 138 Under a blazing afternoon sun, at 3.14 p.m., a modified V-2 rocket carrying a WAC-Corporal in its nose rose slowly from its concrete launching pad. 1958 Daily Mail 16 Aug. 1/4 The 88 ft. rocket stands poised on its concrete launching pad here tonight looking like a giant silver propelling pencil. 1959 Encounter Dec. 74/2 All this is by way of a launching-pad for the idea of the Non-Nuclear Club. 1963 A. Huxley Let. 17 Feb. (1969) 948 Julian tells me that your book is now definitely on the launching pad. 1973 Guardian 31 Jan. 13/7 The NUS sees the rent-strike movement as a launching pad for its main campaign. < as lemmas |
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