boosters

英 [ˈbuːstəz]

美 [ˈbustərz]

n.  助推火箭; (电器的)增压机，升压器; 加强剂量
booster的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 有正面效果的事物；起推动作用的事物
  Aboosteris something that increases a positive or desirable quality.
  1. It was amazing what a morale booster her visits proved...
     令人惊诧的是，她的访问大大鼓舞了士气。
  2. Praise is a great confidence booster.
     赞扬是一种很好的信心增强剂。
• N-COUNT 火箭助推器；推进器
  Aboosteris an extra engine in a machine such as a space rocket, which provides an extra amount of power at certain times.
  1. Ground controllers will then fire the booster, sending the satellite into its proper orbit.
     然后地面控制人员将会发射推进器，把卫星送入正常轨道。
• 加强剂量
  Aboosteris a small injection of a drug that you have some time after a larger injection, in order to make sure that the first injection will remain effective.
• N-COUNT 拥护者；热心支持者
  Aboosteris someone who supports a sports team, organization, person, or place very enthusiastically.
  1. A former associate of Mr. Pierce's was among the project's boosters.
     皮尔斯先生的一个前合伙人是这个计划的热心支持者之一。
  2. ...the university's biggest athletic booster club.
     该大学最大的体育爱好者俱乐部

双语例句

• David Cameron last week said that he wanted to put "rocket boosters" under the welfare system, which sounds like a poor scheme to me.
  戴维卡梅伦（davidcameron）上周称，他希望在社会福利体系下面装上“火箭推进器”，在我听来这可不是什么好计划。
• Did one of the solid rocket boosters somehow burn through its casing?
  是否是其中一个助推火箭的外壳因某种原因被烧穿？
• The efforts of the city's boosters eventually paid off, and Atlanta became known as'Capital of the New South.
  城市支持者们的努力最终得到了回报，亚特兰大成为‘新南方的首府’。
• Intranet boosters argue that low cost and a standard platform make it a smarter bet.
  但内部网的支持者则认为，低的成本和标准的平台使内部网成为一种值得下的赌注。
• He chose the GM buses because they use an automatic transmission and diesel boosters that provide power to scale inclines without strain.
  他之所以选择美国通用汽车是因为他们使用的是自动转换装置和能够提供动力来测量没有张力的斜坡的柴油推进器。
• A major exception, the space shuttle orbiter, uses three onboard liquid-fuel main engines supplied by a disposable external tank and a pair of solid-fuel boosters to reach space.
  一个主要的例外是航天飞机轨道飞行器，它使用三个随之携带的液体燃料的重要引擎到达宇宙，而这又是由一个可任意使用的外部箱和一对固体燃料后援器来供给的。
• A former associate of Mr. Pierce's was among the project's boosters.
  皮尔斯先生的一个前合伙人是这个计划的热心支持者之一。
• Li's biggest boosters are his U.
  李彦宏最大的拥护者是他美国的投资者。
• To his boosters, Mr Spitzer is a paragon among prosecutors: diligent, imaginative and incorruptible.
  在斯皮策的拥护者看来，他是检察官中的典范&工作勤奋、富有想像力而且清廉。
• Space shuttle Atlantis is lowered alongside its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in High Bay-1 of NASA's massive Vehicle Assembly Building.
  亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机的同时降低其外部燃料箱和高湾，美国航天局的大型交通工具装配大楼1固体火箭助推器。