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

• A high performance touch off circuit for big power SCR
  大功率可控硅高性能触发电路
• 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。
• Some basic event can touch off an alarm firsthand, and it can also be analyzed by Policy Script. After be analyzed, it no only touch off an alarm, but also can create a new event.
  基本事件本身就可以触发告警，策略脚本分析基本事件以后既可以生成新的事件也可以触发告警。
• 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。
• The software timely touch off thyristor and control thyristor trigger angle in controllable scope. Consequently the soft starter is better reliability, stability and veracity.
  全数字电子软起动器的软件部分主要是如何根据需要准确及时的触发晶闸管，把晶闸管的触发角控制在可控的范围内，从而提高了软起动器的可靠性、稳定性和准确性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。