springboard
英 ['spr??b??d]
美['spr??b?rd]
- n. 跳板;出發(fā)點(diǎn)
- vi. 利用跳板躍進(jìn)
英英釋意
- 1. a flexible board for jumping upward
- 2. a beginning from which an enterprise is launched;
- "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"
- "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"
- "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"