英语词汇“to press the button”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. More fully nuclear button. Used with the in various phrases which conceptualize the order to launch a nuclear strike as the pressing of a single button; esp. in to push (also press) the button.Cf. push-button adj. 1b and to press (also push) the button at Phrases 10b.

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1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Refl. on Gandhi in Partisan Rev. Jan. 91 In the few years left to us before somebody presses the button and the rockets begin to fly.

1957 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 16 Dec. 2/1 Such a plan will not answer the big questions of whose finger will be on the button.

1984 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 7 Apr. 2/4 His [sc. Walter Mondale's] advertising warns..of the dangers of an ‘unsure’ or ‘unsteady’ or ‘untested’ hand on the nuclear button.

2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Oct. (Business section) 2 It's the same with America's Cold War stand-off with Cuba and the Soviet Union... Some historians claim there was a one in five chance that one or other side would have hit the button.

b. to press (also push) the button: to initiate a process or undertaking; to set something in progress, esp. so as to bring about a particular outcome. Cf. sense 4c.Originally with allusion to an advertising slogan for Kodak cameras; see quot. 1890.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious [verb (intransitive)]

workOE

availa1400

makea1400

prevaila1400

to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450

effect1592

serve1593

to tickle it1601

take1611

executea1627

to have force (to do)1713

answer1721

to take place1789

to do the trick1819

to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836

produce1881

to press (also push) the button1890

to come through1906

to turn the trick1933

to make a (also the) point1991

1890 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 2/5 We have plenty of money to spend in good work, but we are like the Kodak Company. We want a good man to press the button; we'll do the rest.

1893 Amer. Economist 25 Aug. 100/2 Confidence and prosperity will return only when William McKinley ‘presses the button’ and starts the wheels of progress.

1914 E. Grey in Great Brit. & European Crisis 64 Mediation was ready to come into operation..if only Germany would ‘press the button’ in the interests of peace.

1936 J. Hanley Secret Journey ii. xii. 361 It's him who presses the button—who makes the borrowers dance—aye, he'd make Mother dance. He's got her in a trap.

1952 Catholic Hist. Rev. 37 498 Soviet imperialism..lay dormant from 1921 until Hitler pushed the button that started World War II.

1994 Irish Times 19 Feb. 2/5 The commander of the United Nations forces..will..forever be known as the man who ‘pressed the button’ and triggered all-out war with the Serbs.

2012 D. C. Friend Drowning in Dark ii. 11 She made the phone call that got the whole ball rolling. She was the one who ‘pushed the button’ so to speak.

单词	to press the button
释义	> as lemmas to push (also press) the button c. More fully nuclear button. Used with the in various phrases which conceptualize the order to launch a nuclear strike as the pressing of a single button; esp. in to push (also press) the button.Cf. push-button adj. 1b and to press (also push) the button at Phrases 10b. ΚΠ 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Refl. on Gandhi in Partisan Rev. Jan. 91 In the few years left to us before somebody presses the button and the rockets begin to fly. 1957 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 16 Dec. 2/1 Such a plan will not answer the big questions of whose finger will be on the button. 1984 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 7 Apr. 2/4 His [sc. Walter Mondale's] advertising warns..of the dangers of an ‘unsure’ or ‘unsteady’ or ‘untested’ hand on the nuclear button. 2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Oct. (Business section) 2 It's the same with America's Cold War stand-off with Cuba and the Soviet Union... Some historians claim there was a one in five chance that one or other side would have hit the button. extracted from buttonn. to press (also push) the button b. to press (also push) the button: to initiate a process or undertaking; to set something in progress, esp. so as to bring about a particular outcome. Cf. sense 4c.Originally with allusion to an advertising slogan for Kodak cameras; see quot. 1890. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious [verb (intransitive)] workOE availa1400 makea1400 prevaila1400 to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450 effect1592 serve1593 to tickle it1601 take1611 executea1627 to have force (to do)1713 answer1721 to take place1789 to do the trick1819 to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836 produce1881 to press (also push) the button1890 to come through1906 to turn the trick1933 to make a (also the) point1991 1890 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 2/5 We have plenty of money to spend in good work, but we are like the Kodak Company. We want a good man to press the button; we'll do the rest. 1893 Amer. Economist 25 Aug. 100/2 Confidence and prosperity will return only when William McKinley ‘presses the button’ and starts the wheels of progress. 1914 E. Grey in Great Brit. & European Crisis 64 Mediation was ready to come into operation..if only Germany would ‘press the button’ in the interests of peace. 1936 J. Hanley Secret Journey ii. xii. 361 It's him who presses the button—who makes the borrowers dance—aye, he'd make Mother dance. He's got her in a trap. 1952 Catholic Hist. Rev. 37 498 Soviet imperialism..lay dormant from 1921 until Hitler pushed the button that started World War II. 1994 Irish Times 19 Feb. 2/5 The commander of the United Nations forces..will..forever be known as the man who ‘pressed the button’ and triggered all-out war with the Serbs. 2012 D. C. Friend Drowning in Dark ii. 11 She made the phone call that got the whole ball rolling. She was the one who ‘pushed the button’ so to speak. extracted from buttonn. < as lemmas
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