【launch音标】 英[lɔ:ntʃ] 美[lɔːntʃ]
【单词释义】 launch是什么意思：
vt.发射；[计算机]开始（应用程序）；发动；(首次)上市，发行；（船或舰）下水；开展（活动、计划等）；投入；投出，用力扔出n.（航天器的）发射；（产品的）上市；（事件的）发起；汽艇，游艇
[单词分级] 大学英语四级词汇
[单词复数] launches [第三人称单数] launches
[单词现在分词] launching
[单词过去式] launched
[单词过去分词] launched
【launch形近词/近似词】
punch v.用拳猛击；打孔 n.冲床；重拳击打；打洞器；钻孔机
lunch n.[U,C]午餐 v.吃午餐；供给午餐
hunch n.预感，直觉；肉峰 v. 弓身，弓背；隆起
bunch n.束，串，捆；一串
staunch adj. 坚定的；忠诚的；坚固的 v. 止住；止血
paunch n. 腹；大肚子；胃
brunch n.[C,U]早午餐
【单词例句】
◇ Launching the WHO's global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco smoking, he said that industrialized countries are making faster progress than developing countries.
他在发布世卫组织全球吸烟率趋势报告时说，工业化国家比发展中国家控烟进步更快。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ In fact, the idea of walking at least 10,000 steps a day for health goes back decades to a marketing campaign launched in Japan to promote a pedometer.
事实上，为了健康每天至少走一万步的想法可以追溯到几十年前日本一个计步器的营销活动。
---- How Many Steps You Need To Take A Day To Maintain Good Healt
◇ It paves the way for private citizens to travel to the ISS aboard rocket-and-capsule launch systems being developed by Boeing Co and Elon Musk's SpaceX. The two companies are set to ferry astronauts to the ISS from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
这为普通民众搭乘波音公司和埃隆·马斯克的太空探索技术公司研发的火箭及太空舱发射系统前往国际空间站铺平了道路。这两家公司都准备近十年内首次将太空旅行者从美国送到国际空间站。