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[英] [ɔf] [美] [ɔf, ɑf] 生词本

prep.

adv.

adj.

n.

int.

vi.

  • 易混淆的单词：OFF  Off  

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In addition to the uses shown below, off is used after some verbs and nouns in order to introduce extra information. Off is also used in phrasal verbs such as ‘get off’, ‘pair off’, and ‘sleep off’.

除下列用法外，off 可以用在某些动词和名词之后引出附加信息。off 还可用于 get off,pair off, sleep off 等短语动词中。

The preposition is pronounced /ɒf, am ɔːf/. The adverb is pronounced /'ɒf, am 美 'ɔːf/. 介词读作 /ɒf, 美 ɔːf/，作副词时在句中重读。
1. 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. 

  • 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。

  • Hugh wiped the rest of the blood off his face with his handkerchief.

    休用手帕擦去脸上残留的血迹。

  • Off is also an adverb.

    • Lee broke off a small piece of orange and held it out to him...

      李掰下一小瓣橘子递给他。

    • His exhaust fell off six laps from the finish.

      离终点还有6圈时，他的排气管掉了下来。

2. PREP 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. 

  • 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。

  • Off is also an adverb.

    • At the next stop the man got off too and introduced himself.

      那个男人在下一站也下了车并作了自我介绍。

3. PREP 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. 

  • 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。

  • Off is also an adverb.

    • ...a sign saying 'Keep Off'.

      写着“请勿入内”的牌子

4. PREP 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. 

  • 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。

  • The Princess's sitting-room leads off the drawing room...

    王妃的起居室挨着客厅。

5. ADV 离开 If you go off, you leave a place. 

  • 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。

  • She was off again. Last year she had been to Kenya. This year it was Goa...

    她又走了，去年去了肯尼亚，今年则是果阿。

6. 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. 
7. 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. 

  • 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。

8. ADV （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. 

  • 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。

  • She was sacked for demanding Saturdays off...

    她因为要求星期六不上班而被解雇了。

  • Off is also a preposition.

    • He could not get time off work to go on holiday.

      他工作很忙，抽不出时间去度假。

9. PREP 避开（某话题） If you keep off a subject, you deliberately avoid talking about it. 

  • Keep off the subject of politics...

    勿谈政治。

  • Keep the conversation off linguistic matters.

    避谈语言学问题。

10. ADV 取消；中止 If something such as an agreement or a sporting event is off, it is cancelled. 

  • 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。

  • Greenpeace refused to call off the event.

    绿色和平组织拒绝取消这一活动。

11. PREP 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. 

  • 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。

12. PREP 不再喜欢；不再想 If you are off something, you have stopped liking it. 

  • 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。

13. 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. 

  • 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。

  • The microphones had been switched off.

    这些麦克风已关掉。

14. PREP （价格）减掉，降低 If there is money off something, its price is reduced by the amount specified. 

  • ...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

  • Off is also an adverb.

    • I'm prepared to knock five hundred pounds off but no more.

      我做好了降500英镑的打算，但不会再低了。

15. ADV （空间上）离，距 If something is a long way off, it is a long distance away from you. 

  • 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

  • Below you, though still 50 miles off, is the most treeless stretch of land imaginable.

    就在你下方，不过是在50英里开外的，是一片你能想象到的最荒凉的不毛之地。

16. ADV （时间上）离，距 If something is a long time off, it will not happen for a long time. 

  • 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。

17. PREP 从…（获得） If you get something off someone, you obtain it from them. 

  • I don't really get a lot of information, and if I do I get it off Mark...

    我得到的信息其实不多，即使有也是马克告诉我的。

  • I can't find the boys' shampoo. I can't think where I put it when I took it off them...

    我找不到那帮家伙的洗发水了，从他们那里拿来后我就忘了搁在什么地方。

  • 'Telmex' was bought off the government by a group of investors.

    一批投资商从政府手中买下墨西哥电信公司。

18. 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. 

  • Most of these people aren't very well off...

    这些人大都不算太富裕。

  • Surely you can't be that badly off?...

    你肯定没那么穷吧？

  • He's very comfortably off.

    他生活相当宽裕安逸。

19. 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. 

  • Don't eat that! It's mouldy. It's gone off!

    别吃那个！它已经发霉变质了！

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 spoiled
20. 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. 

  • Her husband's memories are of living off roast chicken and drinking whisky...

    她丈夫只记得过去吃烤鸡、喝威士忌的日子。

  • Antony had been living off the sale of his own paintings.

    安东尼一直靠卖自己的画为生。

21. PREP （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. 

  • The Auto Compact Disc Cleaner can run off batteries or mains.

    这种光盘自动清洗机可用电池或电源两种方式驱动。

22. 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. 

  • ...coming home with make-up all over his clothes — it's a bit off isn't it...

    衣服上到处沾着化妆品回到家——他这样有点过分了，是不是。

  • Some of the dialogue is slightly off.

    部分对话有些不太得体。

23. 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. 

  • I was still working on and off as a waitress to support myself...

    我为了糊口仍然间或去做服务员。

  • We lived together, off and on, for two years.

    我们断断续续在一起生活了两年。

Adjective

1. not in operation or operational;

  • "the oven is off"
  • "the lights are off"
  • antonym： on

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"
Adverb

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

  • "ran away from the lion"
  • "wanted to get away from there"
  • "sent the children away to boarding school"
  • "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"
  • "went off to school"
  • "they drove off"
  • "go forth and preach"

2. at a distance in space or time;

  • "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"
  • "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"
  • "away back in the 18th century"

3. no longer on or in contact or attached;

  • "clean off the dirt"
  • "he shaved off his mustache"

体育

  • 1.出界

大气科学

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  • 1.离岸风
  • 2.off-shore wind 沿岸地区, 由陆地吹向水域的风。

物理学

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  • 1.离轴全息术： off-axis holography
  • 2.轴外象差： off-axis aberration： 离轴椭球面镜： off-axis ellipsoidal mirror
  • 3.偏轴角： off-axis angle
  • 4.离线分析： off-line analysis
  • 5.非对角元： off-diagonal element
  • 6.［偏］离共振加热： off-resonant heating

电力

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  • 1.离线安全评估
  • 2.off-line security assessment
  • 3.场外应急计划
  • 4.off-site emergency plan

电子学

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  • 1.断

计算机

  • 1.断开，截止，关(闭)；离开;= OFFice,办公室，局，站，办事处；事务(工作)
1. A good way to get a stamp off an envelope is to soak it off.
从信封上揭下邮票的一个好办法就是把它泡掉。

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. He has such a high opinion of himself that criticism flows off him like water off a duck's back.
他如此自负，以至于批评对他毫无效果。

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. I can jump off the box, but I can't jump off that wall.
我能从这只箱子上跳下去，但是我不能从那个墙上跳下去。

来自《用法词典》

4. Keep your hands off!; Hands off!
不准动手！

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. Mountaineers rely on the mountains, just like those by the waterside profit from water.; If you live on a mountain, you live off the mountain; if you live by the water, you live off the water.
靠山吃山，靠水吃水。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6. Tear off this coupon and use it to get 25p off your next jar of coffee.
撕下这张优惠券，用它再买一瓶咖啡可省25便士。

来自《简明英汉词典》

7. They crossed his name off the list.; They struck out [off] his name from the list.
他们把他的名字从名单上勾掉了。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

8. This part of the field has been fenced off to keep the cattle off.
这块地用栅栏围了起来，以免牛跑进去。

来自《简明英汉词典》

9. Turn the light off as you go out.; Please switch off the lights when you leave.
出门时请随手关灯。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10. When do you come off duty?; What time do you knock off?
你什么时候下班？

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

11. "You'll have to get off here," the conductor said,"This is as far as we go."
“你得在这儿下车了，”售票员说，“我们的车就开到这里为止了”。

来自《用法词典》

12. A bad leg ruled him off for long distance running.
他的腿痛使他不能参加长跑。

来自《简明英汉词典》

13. A bomb went off, and many people were injured by flying glass.
炸弹爆炸了，许多人被飞溅的玻璃碎片划伤。

来自《简明英汉词典》

14. A branch snapped off the tree in the wind.
大风中一条树枝啪地从树上断落。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

15. A button has come off my coat.
我的上衣掉了一个扣子。

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16. A button is off his coat.
他的上衣的一个扣子掉了。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

17. A couple of dozen prints were rolled off in no time.
一下子就印好了几十张图片。

来自《简明英汉词典》

18. A good neighbour is better than a brother far off.
远亲不如近邻。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

19. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
一阵狂风把床吹离了屋顶，“轰”的一声落到下面的院子里。

来自《用法词典》

20. A hare started off into the forest.
一只野兔钻入树林。

来自《简明英汉词典》