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

• SpaceX wanted to bring its first stage booster back to Earth for a simple reason: the rocket boosters that are typically jettisoned after their fuel runs out cost millions of dollars to develop and manufacture.
  SpaceX公司想回收一级火箭助推器的原因很简单：推进器的研发和制造过程都耗费了巨资，燃料用尽后，它们就会被当做垃圾丢弃。
• 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’。
• 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。
• Leading memory experts, however, are skeptical about ginkgo and other brain boosters.
  然而，有影响的记忆专家们对银杏和其它的健脑制剂表示怀疑。
• Equator Principles: Commercial Bank of Sustainable Development Boosters
  赤道原则：商业银行可持续发展的助推器
• Yet even the scheme's boosters admit to structural flaws.
  然而，即便是计划的支持者也承认它存在结构缺陷。
• This simple statement deserves to be in the list of humor boosters to make the point that if you have a line, a quote, an anecdote or a story that is flat-out funny, use it.
  这个简单的叙述，值得被标在幽默的催化剂的列表中，标记重点。如果你有个梗，一个引证，一段趣闻故事或令人捧腹大笑的故事，使用它。
• A collapse in oil prices will be bad news for boosters of carbon-lite fuel.
  油价下滑对于低碳燃料的支持者来说也是坏消息。
• 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。
• We are in constant search of mood boosters and start depending heavily on drugs and material gains for happiness.
  我们在不断追求的心情助推器，很大程度上取决于药物物质财富和幸福。