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 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。
• Some slight incident may touch off a major war.
  一件小事可以触发一场大战。
• His shooting touch was off ( 3 of12), but Yi still found ways to contribute, including grabbing seven offensive rebounds.
  尽管命中率不高（12投3中），但他依然有办法为球队做出贡献，他抓下7个进攻篮板。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。