starting blocks
起跑线,起步区,起步阶段,起跑线上
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Track.
- : a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
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Kim leapt from the starting block, arcing long and effortlessly over my head, and entered the water.
He shoots off the starting blocks, propelling himself through the air with his arms briefly splayed like a pterodactyl before he streamlines into the water.
When they’re ready to relaunch their careers, their starting block has been moved back.
In January, vaccine researchers lined up on the starting blocks, waiting to hear a pistol.
The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.
Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.
“But the laws of Poloeland and those of Flatland are different,” said Amalatok, starting another objection.
But,” said the prime minister of Flatland, starting a difficulty, “who is to be greatest chief?
The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.
We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.
Starting in Dallas he received orders for one hundred forty-two copies the first day.