往上起飛的那個起點
兩個意思都是「起飛的地方」，差別只在起飛的是火箭還是一個人的發展。
noun · B2
The flat base or structure that a rocket, spacecraft or missile stands on before it is sent up into the sky.
發射台
核心畫面
Picture one flat square of concrete with something very heavy standing still on it. Nothing happens there for a long time. Then, in a few seconds, the heavy thing is high in the sky and the square is empty. The word names the square, not the flight — the place stays, and whatever it held goes up and away. That is why it can point at a person's first job or first band just as easily: the small thing they stood on for a while before they went somewhere far above it.
可以想成一塊平坦的水泥方台，上面立著一個很重的東西，一動也不動。那裡很久都沒有任何事發生。然後在短短幾秒之內，那個重…更多收起
可以想成一塊平坦的水泥方台，上面立著一個很重的東西，一動也不動。那裡很久都沒有任何事發生。然後在短短幾秒之內，那個重的東西已經高高飛在天上，方台空了。這個字指的是那塊方台，不是那趟飛行——地方留在原地，被它托著的東西往上走了。所以它也很容易拿來指一個人的第一份工作或第一個樂團：那個他站了一陣子、然後從那裡飛得很遠的小地方。One branch
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
launch padnoun/ˈlɔːntʃ.pæd/
- 1
The surface or structure from which a launch is made.
- 2
A starting point.
- Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。