get off the ground

基本解釋

Putnam's surprising answer is that we cannot coherently think that we are brains in vats, and so skepticism of that kind can never really get off the ground.
普特南給出的驚人的答案是，我們不可能前后一致地認(rèn)為自己是“缸中之腦”，因而對(duì)此的懷疑永遠(yuǎn)不能取得進(jìn)展。
And many relatives of kidnapping victims are so intimidated by the threats they receive that they halt their investigations well before they get off the ground.
許多綁架受害者的家屬被他們收到的威脅恐嚇到了以至于還沒來(lái)得及取得任何進(jìn)展就被迫中止了他們的調(diào)查。
If the consequences of failure entail not just legal bankruptcy but also personal ruin, the venture capital model will not get off the ground.
如果失敗不僅導(dǎo)致企業(yè)在法律上破產(chǎn)，而且造成個(gè)人傾家蕩產(chǎn)，那么風(fēng)險(xiǎn)資本這一模式就難以得到發(fā)展。

He says dinosaurs probably could not get off the ground to fly.
So the question can't even get off the ground.
因此這個(gè)問(wèn)題根本是無(wú)稽之談
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But finally, Reiner says, well, thank you for visiting us, it's all very wonderful, but you know our audience would really like to know; it seems like a simple question but it's awfully hard to understand, but how can a great, big, enormous, heavy thing like this airplane get off the ground?
但最后雷納說(shuō)到,謝謝你的來(lái)訪,太棒了,但你知道嗎,我們的觀眾非常想知道,這問(wèn)題貌似簡(jiǎn)單,但卻很難讓人明白,問(wèn)題是,像這么一個(gè)巨大且沉重的飛機(jī),是如何飛起來(lái)的呢
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They are so top heavy and so fat they can't get off the ground.
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