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 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。
• The frequent shifting of the communication nodes of InterPlaNetary backbone networks will touch off the dynamic change of the main networks 'topologic structure, which can generate great impact on the network performance of the transmission protocol.
  星际主干网的通信节点频繁的移动导致整个主干网拓扑结构的动态变化，已经严重影响了传输协议的网络性能。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is an article about "black-whistle"," black foot-ball" and "injuring bears", which touch off heated debates in the country.
  本文针对在我国各界引起重大反响的“黑哨”、“黑球”与“伤熊”行为进行了深入的刑法学思考。
• 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。
• 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。
• All the boxes fell down, and the King who wanted to touch the moon fell off the high tower and died.
  所有的木箱散落一地，而这个想摸月亮的国王也从高处跌下来摔死了。
• 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；
• 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。