get the ball rolling

基本解釋

I can guarantee that a big smile and a simple “my name’s blank, what’s yours” will be all you’ll need to get the ball rolling.
我能保證，一個(gè)大大的微笑和一句簡單的“我的名字是某某，你叫什么”是你讓談話開始起來的所需的一切。
The mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, will get the ball rolling at midday on Saturday by knocking a hole in a barrel of beer with the traditional cry of “Ozapft is” (It’s been tapped).
慕尼黑市長克里斯蒂安?烏德將在周六正午時(shí)分宣布活動(dòng)開始，他將把一桶啤酒敲開一個(gè)洞，并且按照傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗高喊 “Ozapft is” (開桶了)。
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To get the ball rolling, the receiving component first gives the source component a pointer to its event handler, a process called registration.
為此，事件接收部分首先得給事件源提供一個(gè)事件處理器的指針，這個(gè)過程叫注冊(cè)。

and doing things like that to really begin, get the ball rolling,
真的做了一些事情，真正行動(dòng)起來，
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