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！
• 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。
• 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。
• The first issue that internationalization of population flow will touch off is the freedom of citizen migration.
  人员流动的国际化，面临的首要问题就是公民的迁徙自由问题。
• For BTA cross zero touch off, sine wave which is exported is integrity.
  由于双向可控硅过零触发，所以其输出是不失真的完整正弦波；
• His shooting touch was off ( 3 of12), but Yi still found ways to contribute, including grabbing seven offensive rebounds.
  尽管命中率不高（12投3中），但他依然有办法为球队做出贡献，他抓下7个进攻篮板。
• The core country which has agglomeration can levy an appropriate agglomeration rents on firms. It will not touch off outflow of capital to peripheral country.
  有经济集聚的核心国可以凭借经济集聚对所在企业征收一个适当的集聚租金，同时不会触发资本外流到外围国。
• A new pulse voltage setup is designed to touch off the pre-pulse, which is able to work stably in very adverse electromagnetic environment, and the security and reliability of the discharge setup is raised.
  设计制作了新的预脉冲触发装置，提高了抗电磁干扰能力、安全性和可靠性。额定电压下，出口发生三相短路时，不会造成损坏。
• Some slight incident may touch off a major war.
  一件小事可以触发一场大战。
• The touch sensor can give off signals to the NXT Brick when it makes contact with any material.
  当触控感应器的按被触动的时候可以传送信号回到NXT主机。