kickoff

英 [ˈkɪkˈɒf]

美 [ˈkɪˌkɔf]

n.  （卫星与运载火箭）分离; （足球）开球，（社会集会等）开始

复数：kickoffs　

TEM8

COCA.12229

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 kickoff


• N-VAR （足球赛的）开赛
  In football, thekick-offis the time at which a particular game starts.
  1. The kick-off is at 1.30.
     开赛时间是1点30分。
• （橄榄球赛的）开球
  In American football, akickoffis the kick that begins a play, for example at the beginning of a half or after a touchdown or field goal.
• N-SING （事件或活动的）开始，开幕
  Thekick-offof an event or activity is its beginning.
  1. People stood waiting for the kick-off of the parade.
     人们站着等候游行的开始。

英英释义

noun

• (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score
• a start given to contestants
  1. I was there with my parents at the kickoff
  Synonym:send-offstart-off
• the time at which something is supposed to begin
  1. they got an early start
  2. she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
  Synonym:beginningcommencementfirstoutsetget-gostartstarting timeshowtimeoffset

双语例句

• Listen, we may not win this game, but on the next kickoff.
  听着，也许我们赢不了比赛，但下次弃踢。
• At the kickoff for the first iteration, the entire team consisted of approximately fifty-five people, including designers, developers, testers, information developers, and customer delivery teams.
  当第一个迭代开始时，整个团队包括大约五十五个人，包括设计人员、开发人员、测试人员、信息开发人员和客户交付团队。
• Yet the Friday after Thanksgiving, the kickoff to the highest-revenue weeks for stores, is expected to lay bare the increasingly parallel universes of retailing in America, the analysts said.
  不过，分析师们认为，感恩节后的第二天星期五仅仅是各商店接下来几周高营业额的开始，预计将为营业额不断增加的美国零售世界揭开序幕。
• The utility model relates to a conductor kickoff mechanism which can break away from a conductor insulating layer and screw down an electric conductor.
  本实用新型涉及一种脱离导线绝缘层的同时拧紧导电体的导线拧脱装置。
• In the field test of 12 wells, deviation angle was controlled within 1 °. This met the requirement of the deviation angle less than 1 ° at the kickoff point in directional cluster wells.
  在12口井的现场试验中，井斜角均控制在1°以内，满足了钻定向丛式井造斜点井斜角小于1°的要求。
• Taking a stroll before kickoff, we met many cadets in neatly pressed uniforms.
  在开始比赛之前我们闲逛了下看到很多穿着整齐的军装的军校学生。
• We arrived at the ground only moments before kickoff.
  我们到球场后比赛马上就开始了。
• In fact, isn't this weekend the season kickoff?
  实际上，这周末不就是球季开始？
• The kickoff was a total success.
  事情一开始就大获成功。
• This includes release planning, iteration planning, iteration kickoff, requirements gathering, UAT at the end of an iteration and project retrospectives at the end of each iteration.
  这包括发布计划、迭代计划、迭代kickoff会议、需求收集，每个迭代末尾的UAT（UseraccessenceTest）以及项目回顾。