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，我們不可能前後一致地認爲自己是“缸中之腦”，因而對此的懷疑永遠不能取得進展。
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脇恐嚇到了以至於還沒來得及取得任何進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.
如果失敗不僅導致企業(yè)在法律上破産，而且造成個人傾家蕩産，那麼風險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.
因此這個問題根本是無稽之談
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
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?
但最後雷納說到,謝謝你的來訪,太棒了,但你知道嗎,我們的觀衆(zhòng)非常想知道,這問題貌似簡單,但卻很難讓人明白,問題是,像這麼一個巨大且沉重的飛機,是如何飛起來的呢
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選

They are so top heavy and so fat they can't get off the ground.
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