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

• This explosive needs to be handled very carefully; the slightest jolt will touch it off.
  摆弄这种炸药要非常当心，稍有震摇就会使它爆炸。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A new pulse voltage setup is designed to touch off the pre-pulse, which is able to work stably in very adverse electromagnetic environment, and the security and reliability of the discharge setup is raised.
  设计制作了新的预脉冲触发装置，提高了抗电磁干扰能力、安全性和可靠性。额定电压下，出口发生三相短路时，不会造成损坏。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 slightest touch may set off the mine.
  轻轻一碰就会引起地雷爆炸。