set an activity in motion; make a start
开始活动。
开始活动
We telephone her parents and the British Embassy to set the ball rolling.
我们给她的父母和英国大使馆通了电话,球开始转起来了。
Matters are quite near to bringing out the support we are looking for to set the ball rolling.
问题非常的接近得到支持了,我们在寻求机会让雪球滚动起来。
The ball was set rolling in the 1960s, by Dr Heck, of the University of Delaware.
这项课题由特拉华大学的赫克博士于1960年开始发起。
Tata Chemicals, part of the giant Tata Group, set the low-cost ball rolling last December with its launch of the Swach purifier (‘swach” means “clean” in Hindi) at 999 rupees (about A$25).
庞大的塔塔集团的子公司-塔塔化学品,去年12月以999卢比(约25澳元) (1US$=47卢比) 的价格,推出了"Swach净化器"('swach’的印地文意思是"干净")。
set an activity in motion; make a start
开始活动。