kickoff

英 [ˈkɪkˈɒf]

美 [ˈkɪˌkɔf]

n.  （卫星与运载火箭）分离; （足球）开球，（社会集会等）开始

复数：kickoffs　

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COCA.12229

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 kickoff


• N-VAR （足球赛的）开赛
  In football, thekick-offis the time at which a particular game starts.
  1. The kick-off is at 1.30.
     开赛时间是1点30分。
• （橄榄球赛的）开球
  In American football, akickoffis the kick that begins a play, for example at the beginning of a half or after a touchdown or field goal.
• N-SING （事件或活动的）开始，开幕
  Thekick-offof an event or activity is its beginning.
  1. People stood waiting for the kick-off of the parade.
     人们站着等候游行的开始。

英英释义

noun

• (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score
• a start given to contestants
  1. I was there with my parents at the kickoff
  Synonym:send-offstart-off
• the time at which something is supposed to begin
  1. they got an early start
  2. she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
  Synonym:beginningcommencementfirstoutsetget-gostartstarting timeshowtimeoffset

双语例句

• Listen, we may not win this game, but on the next kickoff.
  听着，也许我们赢不了比赛，但下次弃踢。
• In fact, isn't this weekend the season kickoff?
  实际上，这周末不就是球季开始？
• Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder are among the stars who will sing at an inauguration kickoff at the Lincoln Memorial, the Presidential Inaugural Committee said on Monday.
  “总统就职委员会”于本周一称，就职仪式启动庆典将于本周日在林肯纪念堂举行，届时来自演艺界的众多明星如波诺、布鲁斯·斯布林顿和史迪威·万德等将登台献唱。
• At the kickoff for the first iteration, the entire team consisted of approximately fifty-five people, including designers, developers, testers, information developers, and customer delivery teams.
  当第一个迭代开始时，整个团队包括大约五十五个人，包括设计人员、开发人员、测试人员、信息开发人员和客户交付团队。
• This dissertation aims to analyze the kickoff, development and improvement of Chinese residential industry system, and residence industrialization not only can provide resolutions to solve the residential problems in urban areas, but also can promote the continuous rapid healthy increment of national economy.
  本文详细分析研究了我国住宅产业化的起步、发展和制度的完善，论述了住宅产业化不仅可以解决广大城镇居民的居住问题，而且可以拉动国民经济的总体持续快速健康增长。
• Based on the body kickoff condition presented in the paper, the expressions for calculating the body kickoff time and kickoff velocity are deduced, which provides a valuable reference for study of the shock injury and shock isolation of human body.
  提出了人体抛离的飞离条件，推导了人体飞离时刻和飞离速度计算公式，为定量研究爆炸冲击振动下人员冲击伤和碰撞伤及人员隔冲问题提供了参考。
• Organizers are launching this national kickoff day today.
  组织者们今天发起了全国的开幕活动。
• Tae-Se gained notoriety during the2010 World Cup for his energetic performances and his inability to contain his emotions each time the North Korean national anthem was played prior to kickoff.
  郑大世因为他在2010世界杯上精力充沛的表现，以及每次开球前演奏朝鲜国歌时无法控制自己的情绪而出名。
• Since the kickoff of cross-strait economic cooperation, the Chinese mainland has promulgated a series of favorable policies and measures in attracting investment from Taiwan and has produced positive results.
  自两岸经贸合作开启以来，大陆方面对台商投资采取了一系列优惠措施，对吸引台商投资产生了积极的推动作用，在吸引台湾服务业投资的过程中，同样也可以采取类似的措施。
• When the development team does this small assignment before starting the actual implementation, they get excellent kickoff of their project or development iteration.
  当开发团队在开始实际实现之前完成这个小任务时，他们的项目或开发迭代会获得良好的开局。