off

英[ɒf]美[ɔːf]

prep.从…落下，离开，从…去掉，下班；

adv.离开，距，离，被取消，下班；

adj.不新鲜的，不能接受，不礼貌；

n.起跑；

v.杀死；

第三人称单数：offs;

过去式：offed;

过去分词：offed;

现在分词：offing;

英语六级真题

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.

It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage, a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.

However, it's clear that Macy's believes its troubles run deeper than a temporary aberration ( ' , 偏离) off the thermometer.

Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective— should get priority in new hiring.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook ( ' , 放过).

Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of China's Antarctic operations since the 1980s.

Workplace norms pressure employees to overwork, deterring them from taking paid time off.

Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it most.

The findings caught Carli off guard.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

We can’t expect kids to turn off that admiration when the same person is selling sugar.

She’s figured out that it will take her another three years to pay it off at 30 dollars a month.

Its sheer rock sides sweep up from a broad base until they cut off abruptly at the flat summit.

And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first ( ' , or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry), and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls and windows.

A car that takes off from London street and lands in another random street is unlikely to happen," says Prof.

All the new arrivals are 15-20% off.

Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls an

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.

Because it's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook (放过).

Employees still tell stories of how the Wallaces would take care of employees who had met with misfortunes and they showered their employees with unusual benefits like a turkey at Thanksgiving and Fridays off in May.

He laid off several hundred workers; especially hard hit were the blue- and pink-collar departments such as subscription fulfillment.

Heating this chemical compound drives off carbon dioxide gas, leaving calcium oxide.

However, it's clear that Macy's believes its troubles run deeper than a temporary aberration off the thermometer.

I'd say it's paying off, though.

In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average.

In addition, thousands of fragments that fell off the walls have been recovered.

Investors shouldn't write off brick and mortar.

It was, in my grandfather's own words, like having a limb cut off.

Just off the coast of Southern California sits Santa Cruz Island, where a magical creature called the island fox dwells .

like Schwartz and so many others,I often find myself distracted and off task.

Men aspired to be able to show off their 6 packs or their V-shaped backs and there's a growing market of slimming pills aimed at men, too.

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

Online grocery shopping has really taken off, with most major supermarkets offering the service.

Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication.

Pasta is no longer off the menu, after a new review of studies suggested that the carbohydrate can form part of a healthy diet, and even help people lose weight.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

So Brookdale, the country's largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have to say.

Take all of your paid time off, which not only gives you recovery periods, but raises your productivity and likelihood of promotion.

Take plenty of breaks, because they offer a double bonus: the time off gives your mind a chance to do some preliminary consolidation and it also gives a memory boost to the learning.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry

Though he didn't come from a farming family, from a young age tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land.

Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it most.

Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective—should get priority in new hiring.

We can't switch off global warming just by being good in the future.

We crossed the English Channel at night, and we set off through France.

We often take a militaristic, "tough" approach to resilience and determination like a Marine pulling himself through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the ground for one more play.

You can also use apps like Off Time or Unplugged to create tech free zones by strategically scheduling automatic airplane modes.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

PREP

从…移开；从…脱离

If something is taken off something else or moves off it, it is no longer touching that thing.

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从（交通工具）上下来

When you get off a bus, train, or plane, you come out of it or leave it after you have been travelling on it.

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不去,不涉足（某处）

If you keep off a street or piece of land, you do not step on it or go there.

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离（某地）不远；在…附近

If something is situated off a place such as a coast, room, or road, it is near to it or next to it, but not exactly in it.

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ADV

离开

If you go off, you leave a place.

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ADV

（用于非正式及有时具冒犯性的短语动词）（走）开，（滚）开

Off is used in a number of informal and sometimes offensive phrasal verbs, such as buzz off ,clear off, or in British English bugger off, which are used to tell someone angrily to go away.

ADV

（脱）掉（衣服）；（取）下（首饰）

When you take off clothing or jewellery that you are wearing, you remove it from your body.

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（因生病、放假等等）休息，不工作

If you have time off or a particular day off, you do not go to work or school, for example because you are ill or it is a day when you do not usually work.

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PREP

避开（某话题）

If you keep off a subject, you deliberately avoid talking about it.

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ADV

取消；中止

If something such as an agreement or a sporting event is off, it is cancelled.

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停服，停用（药物等）；戒…

If someone is off something harmful such as a drug, they have stopped taking or using it.

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不再喜欢；不再想

If you are off something, you have stopped liking it.

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ADV

（机器、电灯等）关掉，停掉，不再运转

When something such as a machine or electric light is off, it is not functioning or in use. When you switch it off, you stop it functioning.

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（价格）减掉，降低

If there is money off something, its price is reduced by the amount specified.

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ADV

（空间上）离，距

If something is a long way off, it is a long distance away from you.

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ADV

（时间上）离，距

If something is a long time off, it will not happen for a long time.

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PREP

从…（获得）

If you get something off someone, you obtain it from them.

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COMB in ADJ-GRADED

（与well,badly,worse等副词连用构成形容词）表示“处于…境况的”

Off combines with adverbs such as 'well', 'badly', and 'worse' to form adjectives that indicate how poor or rich someone is.

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ADJ-GRADED

（食物）腐坏的，变质的，变味的

If food has gone off, it tastes and smells bad because it is no longer fresh enough to be eaten.

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PREP

依靠（食物、钱等生存）

If you live off a particular kind of food, you eat it in order to live. If you live off a particular source of money, you use it to live.

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（机器）靠（某种燃料或动力运转）

If a machine runs off a particular kind of fuel or power, it uses that power in order to function.

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ADJ-GRADED

（行为）过头的，不当的，无法接受的

If you say that someone's behaviour is a bit off, you mean that you find it unacceptable or wrong.

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PHRASE

偶尔；有时；断断续续地

If something happens on and off, or off and on, it happens occasionally, or only for part of a period of time, not in a regular or continuous way.

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英汉词典释义

prep.

(表示位置)在…的外面, 在…的沿海

(表示时间)在…之前

(表示方向)从…, 通向, 偏离, 从…离开

(表示比较)低于, 不及

(表示否定)不想，戒除

(表示来源)从…

(表示依附)依靠

从…去掉；从…移开

下班；休息

偏离…价格；削价；杀价

adv.

离开

脱落

未连接；不工作

光, 完

休息

不再会发生；被取消

( 食谱中的项目) 没有；不再供应

减价的；削价的

在剧院舞台的后面（或旁边）

（用以表示除去了某物）

起跑

adj.

休息的; 闲散的; 安静的

不新鲜的

不礼貌；不热情；冷淡

不能接受；难于容忍；不行

关着的；停着的；停止流通的

不再举行的，延期的；不再生效的；取消的

不工作的，休息的；(时间)空闲的

低于标准的；不如平常的；不活跃的；安静的

n.

起跑

关闭(或断开、取消)状态

(赛马的)开始

interj.

离开!站开!滚蛋!

vi.

[用于祈使句]走开，滚开；站开

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. not in operation or operational;

2. below a satisfactory level;

3. (of events) no longer planned or scheduled;

4. in an unpalatable state;

5. not performing or scheduled for duties;

Adverb

1. from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete);

2. at a distance in space or time;

3. no longer on or in contact or attached;

行业词典

体育： 出界；

大气科学： 离岸风；off-shore wind 沿岸地区, 由陆地吹向水域的风。；

物理学： 离轴全息术： off-axis holography；轴外象差： off-axis aberration： 离轴椭球面镜： off-axis ellipsoidal mirror；偏轴角： off-axis angle；离线分析： off-line analysis；非对角元： off-diagonal element；［偏］离共振加热： off-resonant heating；

电力： 离线安全评估；off-line security assessment；场外应急计划；off-site emergency plan；

电子学： 断；