get the ball rolling

基本解释

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.
我能保证，一个大大的微笑和一句简单的“我的名字是某某，你叫什么”是你让谈话开始起来的所需的一切。
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).
慕尼黑市长克里斯蒂安•乌德将在周六正午时分宣布活动开始，他将把一桶啤酒敲开一个洞，并且按照传统习俗高喊 “Ozapft is” (开桶了)。
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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.
为此，事件接收部分首先得给事件源提供一个事件处理器的指针，这个过程叫注册。

and doing things like that to really begin, get the ball rolling,
真的做了一些事情，真正行动起来，
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