SPRINGBOARD
1. 英英釋義：something that helps you to become successful?
例句：A fluent command of English is a springboard?to professional success.?
2. 為什麽選這個詞？?
“springboard”的本意是跳水或體操運動中的“跳板”，它也常被用來表示有助於開展事業的基礎、出發點。當我們想表示“A 促成了 B 的成功”，就可以說“ A is a springboard for/to B ”。註意 springboard 是個可數名詞，我們在使用的時候要註意主謂壹致。?
比如，英語好可以促成職業上的成功，就可以說：?A fluent commandof English is a springboard to professional success.
我們常說“失敗是成功之母”（Failure is the mother of success），說的也就是失敗是成功的跳板，我們可以用 springboard 把這句諺語改寫成：?Our failures can act as ?springboards for future success.
許多學生選擇考研是因為他們認為碩士學位是壹個跳板，可以幫助他們取得更大的成功：?For many students, a master’s degree is a springboard for bigger success.
這句話也和我們之前學過的 ground（表示“理由”）結合起來寫成：Many students take the Postgraduate Admission Test on the grounds that a master’s degree provides a springboard for greater success.
我們在學習語言時，要註意壹些常見表達的比喻意義，讓我們自己的表達更豐富、好玩。比如我們之前學習的 passport 和今天的 springboard，都是可以用在寫作和口語中的實用表達。?
以下是我的個人拓展：
搭配：壹般springboard後面跟的是褒義 //serve as/act as a potent/ helpful/ useful springboard for/to something
//provide a springboard for somebody
//use/see something as a springboard to something or to do something
It could provide a springboard to success.
移民的三種說法：immigration, emigration, migration
自www.thefreedictionary.com
If you emigrate, you leave your own country and go to live permanently in another country: He emigrated from China in the 1970’s.
If you immigrate to a country, you go to live in that country permanently: He immigrated to the US in the 1970’s.
When people migrate, they temporarily move to another place, usually a city or another country, in order to find work: Millions have migrated to the cities. 移民工人migrant workers
背誦：
同義詞：springboard, beginning, commencement
For Mr Milliband, the bedroom tax is a helpful springboard for a wider war on welfare reform. ( The Economist )
?A fluent command of English is a springboard to professional success.