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- a loop at the back of a boot, used to pull it on（靴筒后的）靴襻。
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- Computing a technique of loading a program into a computer by means of a few initial instructions which enable the introduction of the rest of the program from an input device【计算机】自举, 引导。
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- usu. as modifier the technique of starting with existing resources to create something more complex and effective自展：
we see the creative act as a bootstrap process.
我们把这一创造行为视为一个自展过程。
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- start up (an Internet-based business or other enterprise) with minimal financial resources用最小财力创建（网络企业或其他企业）。
2.1
- get (oneself or something) into or out of a particular situation using existing resources利用现有资源使（自身, 某事）进入（或摆脱）某种情形：
the company is bootstrapping itself out of a marred financial past.
公司正在努力摆脱过去的财政困难。
短语
pull（或drag）oneself up by one's (own) bootstraps
- improve one's position by one's own efforts自力更生。
派生词