跳板

The boy dived into the swimming pool from the divingboard.

那个男孩从跳板上一潜入。

The swimmer dived into the swimming pool from the divingboard.

运动员从跳板上潜入。

He dived off the springboard and swam down to the shallow end.

他从跳板跳下, 潜入水中, 到浅水边。

He hurries down the gangplank to hug his waiting wife.

他匆匆忙忙走下跳板, 张开臂去拥抱他那等待着的妻子。

Bankrupt and repudiation are the spring-broads from  which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets,but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.

20破产和拒付债务都是跳板，我们文明中的大部分就从那里纵跃上升，翻的，而困顿的人却站在饥饿这条没有弹性的跳板上。