0 a board that can bend, helping people to jump higher when jumping or diving into a swimming pool or when doing gymnastics -- （跳水或体操中的）跳板
1 something that provides you either with the opportunity to follow a particular plan of action, or the encouragement that is needed to make it successful -- （提供动力的）跳板；（有助于开展某事的）出发点，开端
The study opens up some possible springboards for further research.
The boards served as springboards to present findings to classmates before discussing issues in front of two external audiences and to use as visuals in the future in classrooms.
Many younger academics will use this book as a springboard and an inspiration for their own work in the field.
As an introductory text, the various accounts and references will serve as a springboard for those interested in further reading.
Nonetheless, they are used as a springboard for new theories.
The essays in this book do not amount to a programme: but they are intended to provide a springboard for one.
Such links are then used as a springboard to make instructional points.
Let's welcome it and hope that it's the springboard to a much, much slimmer successor a quarter century or so from now.
