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

• The slightest touch may set off the mine.
  轻轻一碰就会引起地雷爆炸。
• Therefore, tragedies, on the one hand, offer outlet for catharsis of peoples emotion and purification of the soul, and on the other hand, touch off peoples strong sense of life-force.
  故悲剧一方面能宣泄人的情绪，净化人的心灵，另一方面能触发人强烈的生命力感。
• 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。
• 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。
• This paper introduces the control system of a special-purpose high-power three phase rectification circuit, which adopts the single passway phase control and EPROM form checking technology for the output of touch off pulses. The moving phase of pulses is controlled by the one-chip computer.
  介绍了一种专用的大功率三相全控整流电路的控制系统，该系统采用单通道相位控制，EPROM查表技术实现触发脉冲输出，单片机控制脉冲的移相。
• Students can be inspired with enthusiasm in a cordial and friendly classroom atmosphere. They will be active in thinking, finding it easy to touch off associations and making new connections at various knowledge nodes.
  良好的课堂氛围能使学生精神振奋、思维活跃，容易触发联想，在知识上形成新的联系。
• The intention is to touch off the popular application of surface SH wave to industrial testing throughout the country and the development of new ultrasonic testing technique.
  希望对国内普及表面SH波工业检测、开辟超声新技术起启发作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；