| 词汇 | dummy-run |
| 释义 | dummy run noun[ C ] UKinformaluk /ˌdʌm.i ˈrʌn/ us /ˌdʌm.i ˈrʌn/ an occasion when you practise a particular activity, performance, or journey: Do a dummy run to the venue so you know how long to allow on the day. dummy run forThe local elections can be seen as a dummy run for the national election next year.当地的选举可被视作明年全国选举的预演。 Synonym dry run Leave yourself plenty of time to get from the station or bus stop — do a dummy run before the day of the interview if necessary. They speculate that the incident might have been a dummy run for an attack. Before spraying the herbicide, try a dummy run on a similar area with water only. He thought he might walk into town as a sort of dummy run for the real thing on the following day. Repeating an action be at it againidiom be/sound like a broken recordidiom binge-watch bingeable blitz déjà vu here we go (again)idiom iteration iterative iteratively keep on doing something keep your eye inidiom repetitive replicable reprise reproduce reproducible reproducibly reread rewrite Examples of dummy rundummy run I fully understand that what they have designed is for the best—that this is a dummyrun of an entirely new type of scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a dummyrun for a single currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been no "dummyrun". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only a dummyrun of 50 copies of issue 1 were ever produced. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I understand that it has yet to carry out the full dummy runs with live passengers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The safety case cannot be approved by the safety authority until those dummy runs have been carried out to the safety authority's satisfaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No command could be more efficient and more on the alert, yet in the exercises that they carry out with dummy runs the bombers still get through. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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