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| Processed by: | goldyn_chyld (2018-08-29 13:00:23 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 62864 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> "test-fire" can only be a verb, so it needs a "to" in front, if we use it at all. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/test-fire (The noun would be "test-firing".) And indeed 试射 is used as a verb, so "to test-fire" is fine. e.g. J ~ After a few ranging shots, the guns were firmly bedded in and could begin accurate firing. 试射了几发测距炮弹以后，各炮固定好位置，可以开始准确地射击了。 ---------------------------------- Some more examples, from TP: 萬一中共飛彈又來「試射」怎麼辦？ What if the PRC chose that moment to "test" a few more missiles? 去年選戰她要回來時，剛好中共試射導彈， She came back during last year's legislative elections just at the time that the PRC was conducting missile tests very close to Taiwan. 去年六月起中共對我們試射飛彈、舉行軍事演習。 In June of last year, the mainland began test-launching missiles in our direction and holding military exercises. 直到一年多後，在地方上又有其他刑案發生，經鑑識科一比對，發現該凶案所用的槍枝，試射後彈頭與原送驗現場彈頭來復線吻合， More than a year later, however, police recovered two other guns used in crimes, and ballistics tests revealed that the gun used in the third crime was the same one used in the 1975 shooting, |
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- 試射 试射 [shi4 she4] /test-fire/trial fire/ + 試射 试射 [shi4 she4] /to test-fire/to conduct a missile test/ |