touch off

英 [tʌtʃ ɒf]

美 [tʌtʃ ɔːf]

引发; 触发; 引起

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 引发;触发;引起
  If somethingtouches offa situation or series of events, it causes it to start happening.
  1. Is the massacre likely to touch off a new round of violence?
     大屠杀有可能触发新一轮的暴行吗？

英英释义

verb

• put in motion or move to act
  1. trigger a reaction
  2. actuate the circuits
  Synonym:tripactuatetriggeractivateset offspark offsparktrigger off

双语例句

• Destination is not important, the important thing is that journey can touch off your inner feeling or not.
  目的地本身并不重要，重要的是它是否能触发内心的某种感受！
• All the boxes fell down, and the King who wanted to touch the moon fell off the high tower and died.
  所有的木箱散落一地，而这个想摸月亮的国王也从高处跌下来摔死了。
• Cookery writer Simon Hopkinson showed me how to make this dish, in what turned out to be a masterclass in the gentle touch needed to peel off the membranes and then prepare and cook the brains.
  烹饪作家西蒙•霍普金森（SimonHopkinson）向我展示了怎么做这道菜，剥除外面的薄膜然后处理烹制的过程需要非常细致的手法，这让整个展示过程变成了一次大师课程。
• With the development of the project item instruction, it plays more and more important role in the national economy. But lots of poverty risk from countryside resettles occur which easy touch off serious economical social and political issues.
  工程项目建设的不断发展，对国民经济日益章显出前所未有的重要性，但与此同时产生了大量面临贫困风险的农村移民，极易引发严重的经济、社会和政治问题。
• Touch off very profit-generating thinking to the thing that private investment runs a school: Educate it as a kind of industry, can be commercial;
  触发对私人投资办学的可营利性思考：教育作为一种产业，可以营利；
• This explosive needs to be handled very carefully; the slightest jolt will touch it off.
  摆弄这种炸药要非常当心，稍有震摇就会使它爆炸。
• Although the capitalist world system is in powerful position all along, its decline is inevitable, and probably will touch off big upheaval.
  虽然资本主义世界体系一直处于强势地位，但其衰落势所必然，并有可能引发大的动乱。
• Paradoxically, reform measures meant to solidify China's growth over the long term could also become the match that could touch off a conflagration.
  矛盾的是，旨在巩固中国长期经济增长的措施同时也可能引发危机。
• Using electron switch by BTA, BTA at touch off cross zero, thus deferent electron sine wave is intact.
  用双向晶闸管作为电子开关，双向晶闸管过零触发，因而输出的是完整的正弦波。
• The software timely touch off thyristor and control thyristor trigger angle in controllable scope. Consequently the soft starter is better reliability, stability and veracity.
  全数字电子软起动器的软件部分主要是如何根据需要准确及时的触发晶闸管，把晶闸管的触发角控制在可控的范围内，从而提高了软起动器的可靠性、稳定性和准确性。