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

• A major exception, the space shuttle orbiter, uses three onboard liquid-fuel main engines supplied by a disposable external tank and a pair of solid-fuel boosters to reach space.
  一个主要的例外是航天飞机轨道飞行器，它使用三个随之携带的液体燃料的重要引擎到达宇宙，而这又是由一个可任意使用的外部箱和一对固体燃料后援器来供给的。
• 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。
• We sincerely hope to become your career's boosters, to facilitate your business more brilliant success!
  我们真诚希望能成为您事业发展的助推器，促使您的业绩更加辉煌成功！
• 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。
• A collapse in oil prices will be bad news for boosters of carbon-lite fuel.
  油价下滑对于低碳燃料的支持者来说也是坏消息。
• The folding boosters are another plus.
  折叠的助推器是另一个优先。
• Intranet boosters argue that low cost and a standard platform make it a smarter bet.
  但内部网的支持者则认为，低的成本和标准的平台使内部网成为一种值得下的赌注。
• 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。
• 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。