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。
• This financing way can not relieve the financing difficulty as much as expected, and from a long-term point of view, these nongovernmental banking institutions, without necessary legal guarantee, will easily touch off serious social issues.
  这种融资方式虽然在一定程度上对小微企业融资难起到了缓解作用，但是从长远来看，民间的这种非正规金融机构因缺乏必要的法律保障非常容易引发严重的社会问题。
• Some slight incident may touch off a major war.
  一件小事可以触发一场大战。
• Design two different tasks to implement the communication of CAN Bus and Ethernet, specifically introduced how to divide tasks in multitask programming, set tasks priority, communication between tasks and event touch off.
  设计了两个独立运行的任务来完成CAN总线和以太网的双向数据通讯，详细介绍了在嵌入式多任务程序设计中任务的划分、任务优先级的设定、任务之间的通讯和事件驱动等主要内容。
• 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。
• However, the introduction of foreign banks itself can be a two-blade sword, which serves for the economic development in the guest states and at the same time brings about challenges to the stability and safety of financial market. It could also touch off world-wide finance crisis.
  但是，引进外资银行本身也是一把双刃剑，它在有利于东道国经济发展的同时，也会给东道国金融市场的稳定和安全带来新的挑战，甚至可能引发金融危机。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。