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

• 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。
• 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。
• Li's biggest boosters are his U.
  李彦宏最大的拥护者是他美国的投资者。
• 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。
• 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？
• He chose the GM buses because they use an automatic transmission and diesel boosters that provide power to scale inclines without strain.
  他之所以选择美国通用汽车是因为他们使用的是自动转换装置和能够提供动力来测量没有张力的斜坡的柴油推进器。
• You knew all about the connection between the boosters and the crimson girls.
  你很清楚支持者和深红女郎们之间的关系。
• David Cameron last week said that he wanted to put "rocket boosters" under the welfare system, which sounds like a poor scheme to me.
  戴维卡梅伦（davidcameron）上周称，他希望在社会福利体系下面装上“火箭推进器”，在我听来这可不是什么好计划。
• 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。
• 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。