boosters

英 [ˈbuːstəz]

美 [ˈbustərz]

n.  助推火箭; (电器的)增压机，升压器; 加强剂量
booster的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 有正面效果的事物；起推动作用的事物
  Aboosteris something that increases a positive or desirable quality.
  1. It was amazing what a morale booster her visits proved...
     令人惊诧的是，她的访问大大鼓舞了士气。
  2. Praise is a great confidence booster.
     赞扬是一种很好的信心增强剂。
• N-COUNT 火箭助推器；推进器
  Aboosteris an extra engine in a machine such as a space rocket, which provides an extra amount of power at certain times.
  1. Ground controllers will then fire the booster, sending the satellite into its proper orbit.
     然后地面控制人员将会发射推进器，把卫星送入正常轨道。
• 加强剂量
  Aboosteris a small injection of a drug that you have some time after a larger injection, in order to make sure that the first injection will remain effective.
• N-COUNT 拥护者；热心支持者
  Aboosteris someone who supports a sports team, organization, person, or place very enthusiastically.
  1. A former associate of Mr. Pierce's was among the project's boosters.
     皮尔斯先生的一个前合伙人是这个计划的热心支持者之一。
  2. ...the university's biggest athletic booster club.
     该大学最大的体育爱好者俱乐部

双语例句

• Did one of the solid rocket boosters somehow burn through its casing?
  是否是其中一个助推火箭的外壳因某种原因被烧穿？
• We are in constant search of mood boosters and start depending heavily on drugs and material gains for happiness.
  我们在不断追求的心情助推器，很大程度上取决于药物物质财富和幸福。
• Boosters would argue that the reason the population grew so much was because people heard about all the jobs.
  支持就业人数增加一说的人认为，人口之所以增加，是因为人们听说了就业形势一片大好。
• His greatest asset, say his boosters, is his even temperament, often contrasted with Mr Brown's irascibility.
  据他的热情的支持者们称，他的最伟大的优点，是平和的性格，常常与布朗的暴躁形成对比。
• SpaceX wanted to bring its first stage booster back to Earth for a simple reason: the rocket boosters that are typically jettisoned after their fuel runs out cost millions of dollars to develop and manufacture.
  SpaceX公司想回收一级火箭助推器的原因很简单：推进器的研发和制造过程都耗费了巨资，燃料用尽后，它们就会被当做垃圾丢弃。
• When the boosters have helped to lift a space station into orbit, they separate from it and return to the earth.
  助推火箭把太空站推入轨道后，就自行脱落返回地球。
• Space shuttle Atlantis is lowered alongside its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in High Bay-1 of NASA's massive Vehicle Assembly Building.
  亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机的同时降低其外部燃料箱和高湾，美国航天局的大型交通工具装配大楼1固体火箭助推器。
• Yet even the scheme's boosters admit to structural flaws.
  然而，即便是计划的支持者也承认它存在结构缺陷。
• Leading memory experts, however, are skeptical about ginkgo and other brain boosters.
  然而，有影响的记忆专家们对银杏和其它的健脑制剂表示怀疑。
• Other recent research findings have served as morale boosters in the AIDS community.
  其他近期的研究发现也给艾滋病群体打了一计强心针。