launch

• vt. 发射（导弹、火箭等）；发起，发动；使…下水
• vi. 开始；下水；起飞
• n. 发射；发行，投放市场；下水；汽艇

来自lance,长矛，原指掷出长矛，引申词义发射，发动。

1. a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck

2. the act of propelling with force

launch

launch: English has two separate words launch. The verb, ‘propel’ [14], is related to lance. Lances are propelled by throwing, and so the derived Old French verb lancier was used for ‘throw’. English acquired it via the Anglo- Norman form launcher. The sense ‘put a boat into the water’ emerged at the end of the 14th century. From the same source came modern French élancer ‘throw out’, whose derivative élan was acquired by English in the 19th century. Launch ‘boat’ [17] comes via Portuguese lancha from a Malay word related to lancharan ‘boat’.
=> élan, lance

launch (v.)

c. 1300, "to rush, plunge, leap, start forth; to be set into sudden motion," from Old North French lancher (Old French lancier) "to fling, hurl, throw, cast," from Late Latin lanceare "wield a lance," from Latin lancea "light spear" (see lance (n.)). Sense of "set (a boat) afloat" first recorded c. 1400, from notion of throwing it out on the water; generalized by 1600 to any sort of beginning. The noun meaning "a leap or a bound" is from mid-15c., from the verb. Meaning "the liftoff of a missile, spacecraft, etc." is from 1935. Launch pad attested from 1960.

launch (n.)

"large boat carried on a warship," 1690s, from Portuguese lancha "barge, launch," apparently from Malay lancharan, from lanchar "quick, agile;" English spelling influenced by launch (v.).

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Since its launch in 2008 more than 4 million people have used it—

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Without Mr Jobs to shower his star dust on the event, it felt like just another product launch from just another technology firm.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

In fall 2010, she helped launch a pilot project in Chicago to see if the I Pad could improve working conditions and patient care.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

With the launch of interactive advertising, many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV, says David Kline of Cablevision.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary ( ' , and thereby the FAA) from regulating the de sign or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew or passengers.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

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It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm First in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

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It is the first to launch suborbital flights.

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Amend its 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The service was only launched this year, but by the end of September 650,000 jams had been chosen.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In 2005, the Authors Guild of America, together with a group of US publishers, launched a class action suit (集团诉讼) against Google that, after more than two years of negotiation, ended with an announcement last October that Google and the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

While launching animal protection campaigns, they were trapping kitchen mice.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Launch a new program of adventure trips.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

An international movement was launched to promote its use.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

Additionally, those affected by inadequate health and social care are too vulnerable to launch the protests that have addressed other forms of discrimination.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm first in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

since the launch of its program, Best Buy changed its policy to add a $25 fee for recycling old televisions in order to keep the program going.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

So I've just got to do my best, and take a couple of seconds to look through the first few lines before I launch into something.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Space, especially the space directly around our planet, is getting more crowded as more governments and companies launch satellites.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary and thereby the FA from regulating the design or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

These mini-satellites can fit in a launch vehicle's formerly "wasted space".

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

They're still constrained by funders, launch providers and a series of regulations-all of which rein in what CubeSat developers can and cannot do.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

with the launch of interactive advertising, "many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV," says David Kline of Cablevision.

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save“the beauty of natural places for everyone forever”.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

to launch an appeal/an inquiry/an investigation/a campaign

开始进行上诉 / 质询 / 调查 / 一场运动

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to launch an attack/invasion

发起攻击；发动侵略

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a party to launch his latest novel

他最新小说的首发式

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The new model will be launched in July.

新型号产品将在七月推出。

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The Navy is to launch a new warship today.

海军今天有一艘新军舰要下水。

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The lifeboat was launched immediately.

那艘救生艇被立刻放下了水。

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to launch a communications satellite

发射通信卫星

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to launch a missile/rocket/torpedo

发射导弹 / 火箭 / 鱼雷

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Without warning he launched himself at me.

他突然向我猛扑过来。

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He launched into a lengthy account of his career.

他开始啰啰唆唆地讲述自己的工作经历。

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It's time I launched out on my own.

该是我自己创业的时候了。

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the successful launch of the Ariane rocket

阿里亚娜火箭的成功发射

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a product launch

产品的投放市场

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The official launch date is in May.

正式的发行日期是在五月。

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NASA plans to launch a satellite to study cosmic rays...

美国国家航空航天局计划发射一颗卫星上天，对宇宙射线进行研究。

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A Delta II rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral early this morning.

今天一早，一枚“德尔塔”Ⅱ型火箭在卡纳维拉尔角发射升空。

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There was no time to launch the lifeboats because the ferry capsized with such alarming speed.

渡轮瞬间倾覆，根本没时间放救生艇下水。

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Heavy fighting has been going on after the guerrillas had launched their offensive...

游击队发起攻击后，激烈的战斗一直持续不断。

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The police have launched an investigation into the incident...

警方已对该事件展开调查。

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Crabtree & Evelyn has just launched a new jam, Worcesterberry Preserve...

瑰珀翠刚推出一款新果酱——伍斯特浆果果酱。

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Marks & Spencer recently hired model Linda Evangelista to launch its new range.

玛莎百货最近聘请模特儿琳达·埃万杰利斯塔为其发布新系列产品。

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The captain was on the deck of the launch, steadying the boat for the pilot...

船长站在汽艇甲板上为领航员保向。

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We'll make a trip by launch to White Island.

我们将乘汽艇到怀特岛。

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I learned it at school and at university.

我在中小学和大学里学的.

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