首页英语词典offoff的意思

off

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近义词strange eccentric abnormal peculiar

反义词

prep. 离开；脱落
adv. 切断；走开
adj. 远离的；空闲的

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词态变化

第三人称单数: offs;过去式: offed;过去分词: offed;现在分词: offing;

中文词源

off 离开

来自of的加强形式，词源同前缀ab-,apo-,apogee.

英英释意

1. not in operation or operational;: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"

2. below a satisfactory level;: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"

3. (of events) no longer planned or scheduled;: "the wedding is definitely off"

4. in an unpalatable state;: "sour milk"

5. not performing or scheduled for duties;: "He's off every Tuesday"; "he was off duty when it happened"; "an off-duty policeman"

英文词源

off: off: [OE] Off originated simply as the adverbial use of of. The spelling off, denoting the extra emphasis given to the adverb, began to appear in the 15th century, but the orthographic distinction between off for the adverb, and for prepositional uses associated with it (‘removal, disengagement’), and of for the ordinary preposition did not become firmly established until after 1600.
=> of
off (adv.): by c. 1200 as an emphatic form of Old English of (see of), employed in the adverbial use of that word. The prepositional meaning "away from" and the adjectival sense of "farther" were not firmly fixed in this variant until 17c., but once they were they left the original of with the transferred and weakened senses of the word. Meaning "not working" is from 1861. Off the cuff (1938) is from the notion of speaking from notes written in haste on one's shirt cuffs. Off the rack (adj.) is from 1963; off the record is from 1933; off the wall "crazy" is 1968, probably from the notion of a lunatic "bouncing off the walls" or else in reference to carom shots in squash, handball, etc.
off (v.): "to kill," 1930, from off (adv.). Earlier verbal senses were "to defer" (1640s), "to move off" (1882). Related: Offed.

考试真题

You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

This has wiped 6% off the value of the soft tissue paper market in the UK.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off, Dr.Robison said.

So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.

On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last- minute preparations for a test.

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

It keeps many otherwise qualified women off the runway.

Of course, there are opportunities for part-time work off-campus, too.

Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far off.

Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news.

First off, it hurts.

As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers.

The blasthit a bus about to set off for the Ugandan capital Kampala.

A tour boat turned over off the coast of nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

And the man was shocked to wake up and find the tide had come in and completely surrounded him, cutting him off from the shore.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, millennials, will continue to put off buying a house.

Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practi

But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call.

Clearly, there are plenty of ways to keep track of your job search and making the effort to simplify your job search will pay off.

Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.

Here comes Chauncy, just trying to get food for him and his Mom off of the grace of other people.

I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪) emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be tuned off, if it's not a security issue.

I'll try and come to the airport on Saturday to see you off.

In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didn't steal the $20 dollars, or knock the vase off the table.

I've been involved with pubs off and on for ten years.

Most urban Africans live in slums migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.

New York State plans to shut off the thundering waters of niagara Falls again.

Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news.

On the first of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports.

Perhaps most exciting is research that suggests that crafts like knitting and crocheting may help to keep off a decline in brain function with age.

Sleeping better may help fight off illness.

So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.

Sorry to spoil your day off.

The airlander 10 spent nearly 2 hours in the air, having taken off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire.

The American side of the falls was shut off in 1969 to study the build-up of rock at the base of the falls.

The blast hit a bus about to set off for the Ugandan capital Kampala.

The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.

The explosion happened beside a bus which was about to set off for an overnight journey from Nairobi to the Ugandan capital Kampala.

The hollowed-out A0 was stripped of everything potentially harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today.

The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.

When interviewed Keith porter of the southport beach said, our beach is so flat that it's very common for the tide come around the back of people and cut them off from the beach.

When she started saying nice things about Hitler, microsoft turned her off and deleted her ugliest messages.

When that happened, people came from all over the world to see the falls turned off.

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.

It is wise to take a day off to rest.

Anna just emailed to say that the managers' meeting is put off till next Monday.

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Back at the camp, you can kick off your boots and enjoy excellent food and wine.

Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface.

Block, I need to take a few days off because my father is coming over to visit.

Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.

But it also set off the montgomery bus boycott.

But now a study has found it really does help people nod off—if it is milked from a cow at night.

But the person who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

But their interest soon wears off and by January those same toys can be found put away in the basement.

But when john reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates.

Electrical lines have been killing them off.

Experts say the way you design your home could play a role in whether you pack on the pounds or keep them off.

Finally, dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam.

Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is cleaner than ever.

Ground water evaporates and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup.

He had tried to coax the dog to him but, frightened, it had run off.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

How would you like it if you were watching your favorite TV program and someong came into the room and just shut it off without asking you?

However, here are some examples: being cut off in traffic, a deadline approaching, experiencing physical pain, and much more.

However, instead of taking care of his business, john was often off exploring nature.

I can drop you off on my way.

"I have worked there on and off for almost ten years," says gin.

I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a "ruby-crowned kinglet" and checked it off.

I tried to hold off at first, I played it cool for a short while.

In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult.

In the ocean, we fished for top predators such as cod on an industrial scale, while on land, we killed off large predators such as wolves.

It is cut off from big cities.

It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement.

It used to be the "year off" between school and university.

Jeff had hunted in Lowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off.

Just something off the top of my head.

Leaving aside the birth rate issue, India's economy may take off when the country achieves of educational opportunity.

Living in a glare of our making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage—the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night.

Many animals give off pheromones — natural chemicals that can be detected by, and then can produce a response in, other animals of the same species.

Many businesses started up by college students have taken off thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.

My work colleague adjusted to my taking off at a moment's notice for medical emergencies.

On the edge of the Jacket, there is a piece of cloth which/that gives off light in the dark.

On the third Monday of April, the holiday sechselauten is kicked off when a cotton snowman called the boogg is stuffed with explosive and paraded through town by bakers and other tradesmen who throw bread to the crowds.

Once fire and emergency people arrive, Larry and the other man backed off and let them go to work.

Others say we can just "switch them off" as if super intelligent machines are too stupid to think of that possibility.

Out of breath, I swung open the door and got a blast of cold air that instantly cooled me off.

Phytoplankton live at the ocean surface, where they pull carbon dioxide into the ocean while giving off oxygen.

Set off early in the morning.

She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies after school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task.

The author came from a well-off family.

The bay was bathed in sunshine, and there was a group of kayakers around 150m off the shore.

The coach is able to focus on the kids while the other parents are relieved to be off the hook for another season.

The environmental challenges are significant but the efforts made by the tanzania national park authority seem to be paying off.

The evening walk was a time to shake off the day's upsets and let the worry tracks in my head go to white noise.

The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

The late musician Dennis brian is said to have asked a fellow train passengers to turn off his radio.

The model T Ford was built at the piquette plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line on september 27, 1908.

The set worked so beautiful when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations signed off for the night.

The teacher may require a second proposal if the first is off-topic or unclear.

The town was cut off from the rest of the world due to heavy snow.

The way light reflects off-marine organisms.

Then she ran along the edge of cliff and fell 100 feet, bouncing off a rock into the sea.

There's nothing that ticks off a professor more than making him-or herself available for a custom office hour only to find that you don't care enough to come on time.

They dropped off onto the floor.

They have loans, bills, a mortgage to pay off, retirement to save for.

They recognize there's something missing in their lives, but it's hard to step off the track.

They stare off into space and wander by themselves.

They visit it for a relaxing day off from the urban madness.

This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.

This cycle goes day after day: the walls warm up during the day and cool off during the night and are thus always a timely offset for the outside temperatures.

This work is starting to pay off.

This year, 25310 students who have accepted places in higher education institutions have put off their entry until next year, according to statistics on university entrance provided by the university and college admissions service ucas.

Those were also at the core of our relationship off the screen.

Tomorrow will start off dry and bright in most areas, with temperatures slightly above normal for this time of year.

Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path.

We will put off the picnic in the park until next week, when the weather may be better.

When dad took off the lid, the smell nearly knocked us out.

When their children lived far away from them, these old people felt cut off from the world.

With rainbows forming in the splashing water around you and the sound of huge drops of water bouncing off your body and face, it is truly exciting.

You have to pay it off before you check out all books.

You should have seen macy cry when ed was about to set off on the first day, though.

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

On May 31st Microsoft Set off the row: It said that Internet Explorer 10,the version due to appear windows 8, would have DNT as a default.

Few switch DNT on now, but if tracking is off it will stay off.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

Bob Liodice, the chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers, says consumers will be worse off if the industry cannot collect information about their preferences.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably long delay.

What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

So how do we navigate this? How do we know when to invest in an upgrade? And what’s the best way to pull off one that enhances our goals? Here are some tips:.

Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.

And what's the best way to pull off one that enhances our goals?

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can't be knocked off.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay.

But for the most part, these benefits seem thin, uncertain, and far off.

But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn't hurt so bad.

Even when you win, you end up no better off.

Every Saturday morning, at 9 am, more than 50,000 runner set off to run 5 km around their local park.

Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off.

German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession.

Healthy trees are also better able to fend off insects.

If we adults could indulge in a bit of silliness and giggling, we would reduce the stress hormones in our bodies, increase good hormones like endorphin, improve blood flow to our hearts and ever have a greater chance of fighting off infection.

If you're not convinced of the inherent value in taking a year off to explore interests, then consider its financial impact on future academic choices.

In fact, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, since human beings thrive off of social connections.

In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off.

It is too soon to write off the EU.

It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television .

It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow off the starting line because it depends on learning—a gradual process—instead of instinct.

millennials remember their father and mother both were laid off.

None of this is about writing off the individual.

On May 31st Microsoft set off the row.

Planning ahead should eliminate wastage, but if you have surplus vegetables you'll do a vegetable soup, and all fruits threatening to "go off" will be cooked or juice.

She adds, however, that "to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one."

The common idea that high CEO pay is mainly about ripping people off doesn't explain history very well.

This one may be a bit more difficult to pull off, but it can go a long way to achieving results.

We're doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster.

Workers tended to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.

Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly.

词组搭配

off and on

intermittently; now and then

间歇地；偶尔

实用场景例句

He took his feet off the desk...: 他把脚从桌上移开。

I took the key for the room off a rack above her head...: 我从她头上方的架子上拿走了房门钥匙。

Don't try to get on or off a moving train!...: 火车运行时请勿上下车！

As he stepped off the aeroplane, he was shot dead.: 他一走下飞机便中枪身亡。

Locking up men does nothing more than keep them off the streets...: 把这些人关起来只是做到了不让他们上街而已。

The local police had warned visitors to keep off the beach at night.: 当地警方告诫游客不要在夜间去海滩。

The boat was anchored off the northern coast of the peninsula...: 这艘船停泊在离该半岛北部海岸不远的地方。

Lily lives in a penthouse just off Park Avenue...: 莉莉住在公园大道附近的一套顶层豪华公寓里。

He was just about to drive off when the secretary came running out...: 他正打算驾车离开，这时秘书跑了出来。

She gave a hurried wave and set off across the grass...: 她匆匆地挥了挥手便穿过草地离开了。

He took off his spectacles and rubbed frantically at the lens...: 他摘下眼镜，疯狂地擦着镜片。

He hastily stripped off his old uniform and began pulling on the new one.: 他匆匆地脱下旧制服，开始穿上新的那件。

The rest of the men had the day off...: 其他人这天没上班。

You can even snatch a few hours off, and perhaps negotiate the occasional night off too...: 你甚至可以抽空休息几小时，商量一下的话没准还能偶尔不用上晚班。

Keep off the subject of politics...: 勿谈政治。

Keep the conversation off linguistic matters.: 避谈语言学问题。

Until Pointon is completely happy, however, the deal's off...: 但是，在波因顿完全满意之前，这一协议不再作数。

The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off...: 空缺的世界拳击理事会次轻量级头衔被取消了。

She felt better and the psychiatrist took her off drug therapy...: 她感觉好些了，那位精神科医生让她停止了药物治疗。

Most pregnant women remain off cigarettes while carrying the child.: 大多数孕妇都在孕期戒了烟。

I'm off coffee at the moment...: 我眼下不再嗜咖啡了。

Diarrhoea can make you feel weak, as well as putting you off your food.: 腹泻会让人感到乏力，而且没有胃口。

As he pulled into the driveway, he saw her bedroom light was off...: 当他把车开进车道时，他看到她卧室的灯已经熄了。

We used sail power and turned the engine off to save our fuel...: 我们借助风帆的动力航行，且关掉了发动机以节省燃油。

...Simons Leatherwear, 37 Old Christchurch Road. 20 per cent off all jackets this Saturday.: 本周六老基督堂路37号的西蒙斯皮衣店所有夹克降价20％。

...discounts offering thousands of pounds off the normal price of a car.: 比平时车价低几千英镑的折扣

Florida was a long way off...: 佛罗里达离这儿很远。

...animals that from a long way off look like flies...: 远看像苍蝇的动物

An end to the crisis seems a long way off...: 这场危机看来远未结束。

The required technology is probably still two years off.: 所需技术可能还要两年才能开发出来。

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