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Значения термина jumping-off place на английском

A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched.

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Examples for "point of departure"
Examples for "point of departure"
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He did indicate, though, that his point of departure had been Cuba.
Cat’s Cradle
2
The one who is on the point of departure is a saint.
Les Misérables
3
Our time will become the point of departure of a new art.
Arachne — Volume 06
4
When he was on the point of departure, Pauline said to him:
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
5
From this point of departure, it was not difficult to elaborate the story.
Animal Farm
Использование термина jumping-off place на английском
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You were born only five miles from the jumping-off place, my dear.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02
2
It will just be a sort of jumping-off place into Space for us.
A Honeymoon in Space
3
A stone weir slowed the current and was a favorite diving and jumping-off place.
Atonement
4
And that brings us around to the jumping-off place again.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
5
Before long we arrived at what may be called the " jumping-off place."
The Lake of the Sky / Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of Californ...
6
I couldn't see at the time where I could find a better jumping-off place.
The Lost Valley
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I suppose the Foreign Office will help me to get to the jumping-off place?
Greenmantle
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Don't you know you are standing on the very edge of the jumping-off place?
The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost C...
9
Having that in common probably isn't much of a jumping-off place for us, is it?
Fortunate harbor
10
At the end of twenty steps the corridor ended in a " jumping-off place."
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Sitka has always seemed to me the jumping-off place.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
12
Inconnu is the jumping-off place for most climbing trips into the Vampires or the Cirque.
Climbing Magazine
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It's the jumping-off place-theend of a narrow-gaugerailroad.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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I thought I'd reached the jumping-off place, at first.
Lonesome Land
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The outlandish dresses that you had made at that jumping-off place in the West won't answer.
A Young Girl's Wooing
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This looks like the jumping-off place to me.
Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky