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Definition of off in English: offadverb ɒf 1Away from the place in question; to or at a distance. 离开；在某地以外 那个人跑掉了。 she dashed off to her room 她一下子走开冲进了自己的房间。 我们现在得走了。 Example sentencesExamples - Ali saw some birds diving in the distance so off we went at high speed to fish that spot.
- I was good about not taking a lot of time on my sites this morning, but now I must be off.
- Along the shoreline not far off, people dip-netted for hooligan, an oily spring fish.
- Take your children for a drive following that route, so they know where to get on and off.
- He exited the court room immediately, walking off to the jubilation of the watching fans.
- Closing the distance between us she veered off to my left and stood beside me, facing in the opposite direction.
- By 6pm that evening the ship had sailed off into the distance to meet its fateful end.
- The train stayed full with people getting off and on all the way although I didn't see standees.
- As the carriage turned to head up to the main entrance, Jak grabbed her waist and jumped off.
- I wandered off into the changing room and changed into my spare uniform.
- She shoos me out of her nice clean treatment room and I totter off feeling not exactly relaxed.
- The lake was on our left, stretching off into the distance and covered by a heavy haze.
- They crouched in the distance then lolloped off, not into the woods, but over bare ground to the horizon.
- The distances involved in the US make it hard to rush off to a weekend tournament.
- Then there was the attractive man across the seat who kept staring off into the distance.
- The song finishes and we say a few more individual goodnights and head off to our room.
- Terrified, Mr Austin did as he was told and then called the police after seeing his car speed off into the distance.
- A policewoman told a jury how she ran after a driver who sped off as she was questioning him.
- A thought suddenly glimmers in his eye - he gets up and hurries off to his room, beckoning after me.
- I wandered off into the sitting room and came back with a great pile of CDs.
Synonyms away, to a distance, from here, from there - 1.1 Away from the main route.
偏离主道 离开主道，前往里彭。 Example sentencesExamples - Traffic is a nightmare by about 4pm for a few hours and there is only one route off.
- Police then chased the van which drove in the direction of Newbridge before turning off for the race-course.
- The path veers off to the right to bring you to the summit of Hindscarth, marked with a large cairn.
- The branch line can be mapped as a line running next to the main line until the location where they split off.
- The dive centre is off to the left as you enter the main part of the village.
- You can either go down the well-trodden route or detour off onto another track.
2So as to be removed or separated. 掉；开 他迅速脱掉外衣。 a section of the runway had been cordoned off 跑道的一段已用警戒线隔开了。 Example sentencesExamples - Parts of the area were fenced off for weeks while Wessex Water laid the main.
- The best way to lose weight and keep it off is to remove as much fat from the diet as possible.
- It matters not whether the brandy ignites, but the alcohol must be boiled off.
- It's a little swollen now, but I can still get the ring off and on without any problem.
- By the way why is the play park for kids built near a busy main road and not even fenced off?
- Cut these off to the main stem, even if you have to dig away some soil to get to them.
- But recently the route has suffered erosion and has been closed off from use for all but one day a month.
- This is because to lose weight and keep it off, you must adjust what and how you eat permanently.
- The bed would usually be screened off from the main hall by a curtain, often embroidered.
- The main display area and the balcony have been closed off since last summer.
- The second-floor room was sealed off as officers carried out a detailed search.
- If they must graze on the hillside, the reservoir must be fenced off to keep them at a safe distance.
- The march route is being blocked off and motorists in the area could be delayed for some time.
- Then as the day went on, I'd cross things off when I'd done them and add new items to the bottom.
- It is next to a set of doors and screened off from the main carriage - without seats for companions.
- Up to a third of the university's 1,800 rooms could be sold off as part of the plan.
- It is expected that some routes will be cordoned off to motorists and members of the public.
- They placed her in the recovery position and took her coat off, using their own clothes to keep her warm.
- The US military said the main road had now been completely sealed off.
- The site was cordoned off and US military officials removed top secret equipment.
- 2.1 Absent; away from work.
缺席；不工作 休息一天。 他请病假没来上班。 Example sentencesExamples - I just spent a very invigorating half hour talking to the boss about some time off for you.
- In some jobs, and this is one of them, there is no such thing as a day off, or a night off, or a holiday without interruption.
- We'll take a week off as soon as the route is announced and drive it all the way.
- What will they do with their children all week long when swimming is out of the question until dad is off at the weekend.
- However her health was not good enough to allow this and she was forced to take another year off on sick leave.
- When I had my daughter, I took over a year off from medical school to be with her.
- I'm off for the next week and a bit - eight days in Berlin with some old chums who are touring the continent as we speak.
- Fingers crossed that I get Tuesdays off and I could race home for Monday night games.
- Because I am still off sick I feel duty bound to stay indoors all day and do nothing.
Synonyms away, absent, out, unavailable, not working, not at work, off duty, on holiday, on leave, free, at leisure, idle North American on vacation
3Starting a journey or race; leaving. 出发 we're off on holiday tomorrow 我们明天出发度假。 the gunmen made off on foot 那些持枪歹徒步行逃跑了。 他们出发了！ Example sentencesExamples - They'd get to the station and they'd be off on their journey to a new world, she couldn't wait.
- On a day trip to Dublin today, and off to Prague tomorrow morning for the bank holiday.
- If you are one of the many people who are booked to go off on holiday in the next few weeks you may be asking yourself this question.
- If, like me, you are off on a driving holiday this year, make a selection of tapes to take with you.
- Then she flew off for a three-week holiday in the sun with her husband and younger child.
- With the interview over, Riddle announces he will be off on holiday with his family.
- The teenager had waited with a female friend at a bus stop before heading off on the short journey home.
- I leave again tonight for some more stuff in New York, then off to the Texas race.
- It is wonderful to have a convenient airport from which to jet off on holiday or on business.
- Midwives from Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust are off on a research journey to China.
- He will now be jetting off on a luxury holiday to Ibiza thanks to the Child of Achievement charity.
- I'd also rather like her to be working properly again by the time I go off on holiday.
- Once my sleigh is packed and ready to go, I'll be off on my journey around the world.
- School time is for learning, it's not for swanning off on cheap holidays to catch some winter sun.
- War is declared at about the same time as Inman's love for Ada and he must march off to battle.
- It feels like a betrayal to be flying off on holiday when there are so many problems to deal with.
- When you shut the latch of your front door and head off to a race, you do so with a different mindset that sets the tone for the weekend.
- He is off on his holidays to Kerry this week and is taking a book he says he is really looking forward to reading.
- After today's race Tergat is off to America to collect an honorary degree from a New York university.
- We try to grab a bit of toast or something, and we are off to the races.
4So as to bring to an end or be discontinued. 结束；停止 the Christmas party rounded off a hugely successful year 圣诞晚会圆满结束了这非常成功的一年。 she broke off her reading to look at her husband 她停止阅读举目看她的丈夫。 Example sentencesExamples - The party was a resounding success, topped off by Nobby Clark walking the plank into Bangor harbour.
- The day was rounded off with a tour of the formal rooms and the visitors' centre.
- Muir's second try was rounded off by James Reilly, who had supplied all of the rest of the points by way of his boot.
- The weekend was rounded off nicely with some good news from the doctor on Monday.
- A perfect day was rounded off with a viewing of a restored print of Citizen Kane in one of the centre's cinemas.
- The day is finished off with a bit of fun, doing short downhill routes and skills sections with jumps and so on in the fun park.
- The day was rounded off by a disco at Pitsea Leisure Centre for all the participants in the carnival.
- We started kissing, then after some time we broke off and just held each other.
- The event was rounded off with a party in a barn for the hundreds of YFC members.
- Talks between the two sides broke off in May.
- ‘It can't be,’ said Carl, his voice trailing off.
- The volume is rounded off by an admirably comprehensive bibliography and a useful index.
- That won't last, though, since there is now no excuse for us not getting the room finished off.
- The show is rounded off by the reader auctioning a copy of The Phone Book he or she has signed.
- Shrek 2 opens where the first film left off, with Shrek and Fiona on their honeymoon.
- You only receive free credit if you clear the debt off in full at the end of the month.
- The festival will be rounded off on Sunday with a free and easy all-in open session.
- 4.1 Cancelled.
取消 tell them the wedding's off 告诉他们婚礼取消了。 Example sentencesExamples - Dave said visitors to the Royal Oak will have to make do with a pint only - the menu is definitely off.
- Last year the race had to be called off because of the foot and mouth crisis.
- Apparently, there had been an announcement on a local radio station saying the event was off.
- He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
- While some high profile projects have been killed off, in the main the government has no idea how to replace them.
- The journey is called off, replanned for some other time. Today was one of those days.
- She returned the money when, on the day of the ceremony, the wedding was called off.
- He thinks he will have to tell Stuart to call the wedding off because Sindi is dodgy.
Synonyms cancelled, postponed, called off, abandoned, shelved - 4.2British informal (of an item on a menu) temporarily unavailable.
〈英，非正式〉（菜单上的菜）暂时没有 草莓暂时没有。 Example sentencesExamples - For starters, I went for deep-fried lobster tails, only to be told the lobster was off.
- Give us fruit, cheese, or just tell us dessert is off, but spare us monstrosities like ‘tartufo’, a ball of synthetic vanilla ice cream in a saccharine-sweet meringue jacket.
Synonyms unavailable, unobtainable, finished, sold out
5(of an electrical appliance or power supply) not functioning or so as to cease to function. （电器，供电）关闭，断开 关闭电视机。 the electricity was off for four days 电断了四天。 Example sentencesExamples - I've heard that leaving a light on for a given length of time may use less energy than turning it off and on again.
- Speakers would cut out at random, and would only come back on when I turned the amp off and on again, or turned it up to full volume.
- His nephew, on being unable to turn the computer off, decided to pull the plug out of the mains.
- Back in the room, John lit one of the smaller lamps and left the rest of the lights off.
- The lights flash off and on, and the phones are cut as guards try to get people moving out of the room for the next set of visitors.
- So many people seem to enjoy saying that they sit with the lights off and don't answer the door on Halloween.
- In order to repair the cable and make it safe we had to turn the power off.
- He had watched lights go on and off in the tower during the next couple of hours.
- The light technician turns the lights off and on to the rhythm of the music.
- The tape player sat on the floor of my bedsit in Bromley, and I used to turn it on and off with my foot.
- Chris ran back and shut the lights off in the truck since they wouldn't be required.
- You can leave the lights off and not worry about being spotted through the window.
- He was trying to clear a jam, but failed to switch the power off before doing so.
- When I switch the engine off and on and activate the wiper lever they restart - although this is of little help on the motorway.
- Several weeks after the completion of his work the office lights would go off and on intermittently.
- If this happens again, I might have to employ my Halloween night trick of staying in with the lights off.
- I also make sure that I turn the charger plug off at the mains when it's not actually charging the laptop.
- As seen here, however, often the best strategy is to turn the pacemaker off or to remove it altogether.
- He beamed and waved back then he closed his window and turned his lights off.
- She was grateful that she had found some candles, because the power had been flickering off and on.
6Having access to or possession of material goods or wealth to the extent specified. 获得；拥有 we'd been rather badly off for books 我们很缺图书。 how are you off for money? 你有多少钱？ Example sentencesExamples - He found that the company was not nearly as badly off as he had initially thought.
- Arthur's a lot better off than half the population - he's got a home and a steady job.
- I went over and he said, ‘How are you off for grub?’
- And with rises in council tax and other bills, I'm actually going to be worse off next April.
7British (with preceding numeral) denoting a quantity produced at one time. 〈主英〉 接在数词后一次的产量 Example sentencesExamples - Kienzle printers: 6 off, surplus to manufacturing requirements.
preposition ɒf 1Moving away and often down from. 从…离开；向下 他从床上滚了下来。 the coat slipped off his arms 大衣从他的手臂上脱了下来。 trying to get us off the stage 企图把我们赶下台。 Example sentencesExamples - The guards crossed the room to her and one jerked her arms, dragging her off the bed.
- On Tuesday evening, a plane managed to slide off the runway and sink axle-deep in the mud.
- I didn't mean to push her off the bed but it just so happened that she fell to the floor.
- At times, it looked as if she would fall but she quickly caught himself and made her way off the stage.
- We also managed to get a few photos of the stars themselves on and off the stage.
- I took everything off my bed, which had been my storage place, and put my sheets in to be washed.
- She grinned and disappeared off the main deck and appeared standing on the beach on the little island.
- And then at the end of their set, they walk off the stage only to come back a minute later.
- Before I can even process what day it is, I hop off my bed and head for the broom every morning.
- He had coincidentally just fallen off his seat, so after an amazing start we were in quite some disarray.
- She folded her arms and Kev reluctantly jumped down off the stage so he didn't have to yell all the way across the room.
- Hey, I'd be the first one to come down off the stage and throw a punch if that were to happen.
- The essence of the message to both young and older children is - stay off the line, it is a dangerous place.
- I keep a waste paper bin next to the chair I sit on so I had visions of it having bounced off the arm of the chair and into the bin.
- The manager had hardly stepped off the plane on his return before being told his services were no longer required.
- Like a true Brit, I hold on to summer until the last leaves have fallen off the trees.
- His men were given the task of moving swiftly off the beach and joining up with the paratroopers who had landed inland.
- As I watch, it slips off the edge and rolls down the slope into a thicket of thorny bushes.
- It looks like Drey had just been playing a game, jumping off bunk beds, when he suffered fatal injuries.
- He was playing the part of a stranded climber, injured in a fall and dangling perilously off the rock face.
2Situated or leading in a direction away from (a main route or intersection) 从（主道，交叉点）偏离，分岔 single wires leading off the main lines 从主线向外分散的单线。 in a little street off Whitehall 在怀特霍尔不远处的一条小街上。 Example sentencesExamples - The spate of incidents have taken place over the last few days at Dovercourt Cemetery, off Main Road.
- The new pool in the Gorbals is off the main bus route and, in any case, the ladies are not allowed to book it.
- Just off the main consumer drag of Regent Street runs humble Heddon Street.
- I still cannot get my head round the idea that golf's holy of holies is situated just off a busy dual carriageway.
- Unity Day will be held at Hyde Park, situated off Hyde Park Road and Moorhouse Lane.
- The businessmen were on a part of the Wall that is off the main tourist trail.
- This was the second application for the vicarage, situated off Skipton Road and Haw Grove.
- Bear right through the gate off the main path and begin the steep, steep ascent directly to the summit.
- You can see where many trails merge, popular browsing routes, places off the beaten track maybe.
- She will shout at him and then he will take her for a drink in some shady bar off the main street and fall in love with her.
- After leading them through the back streets off Burtonstone Lane, he escaped on foot.
- The business people on and off Main Street have put in a huge contribution in the past three years.
- Situated just off Filey's main thoroughfare, this proved to be a busy venue.
- She strengthened her grip on my arm, steered me onto a smaller path which forked off the main route to the left.
- There were three different types of toilets in the yards off the main street.
- He spoke to the driver and the car turned onto a quiet track off the main road.
- I live in a very nice 2 bedroom house not far from the city centre in a quiet street just off a main road.
- The hotel is situated just off the A9, north of Ballinluig and south of Pitlochry.
- The development will be located in the centre of the town off the main Limerick to Galway road.
- Would these people come to a village pub off a main thoroughfare if the food was as bad as your reviewer makes out?
- 2.1 Out at sea from (a place on the coast)
在（海岸以外的）海上 在布鲁湾外抛锚。 在离敦刻尔克六英里的海上。 Example sentencesExamples - On the return voyage, his ship was lost off Cape Cod, but he and his crew were rescued.
- It was so hot off Spain's Mediterranean coast that water temperatures rose by three degrees.
- The new tidal project, at the Fall of Warness, off Eday, will see four test berths.
- Just off the coast of Venezuela, Bonaire is also one of the top two dive sites in the Caribbean.
- The ship, on her inaugural cruise after a multi-million refurbishment, anchored off Milford Haven while her passengers were led on a variety of excursions.
- Eventually, Frank and his comrades anchored three miles off the French coast at day break.
- Three years ago we also bought an island with a tumbledown house off the Welsh coast.
- Several types of endangered sea turtles live in the waters off the Angolan coast.
- The big boys may have had it all their own way since oil was discovered off the north-east coast.
- Duvillaun is one of the largest islands off the Irish coast and is renowned as a wildlife haven.
- His parents moved to Paisley from a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.
- They farm tuna in similar ponds in colder deeper waters off the coast of South Australia.
- Snapper and teraglin have been the main catches off Ballina and Evans.
- One of the world's biggest wind farms could be built off the coast of Essex.
- Several fishing boats have also gone missing off the northern main island of Luzon.
- Much bigger windfarms are due to be built, including some off the Yorkshire coast.
- As a youth I went mackerel fishing with an old boy called Sam off the Norfolk coast.
- American authorities will have an aircraft carrier anchored off the coast.
- The ship was visiting Albania to conduct survey operations off the coast.
- Boats off the Donegal coast will be restricted to just nine days fishing a month.
3So as to be removed or separated from. 掉；开 threatening to tear the door off its hinges 威胁要把它从铰链上拉下来。 they knocked $2,000 off the price 他们在把价钱降低2，000美元。 figurative it's a huge burden off my shoulders 〈喻〉这大大减轻了我的负担。 Example sentencesExamples - Pulling the leaves off thyme sprigs can be painstaking - when the branching stems are twiggy, you can't strip the stalk bare in one clean sweep.
- When Ford knocked $700 off the price, sales shot up, and the Super Cab now accounts for 70 percent of all Rangers sold.
- They started by taking the plaster off the outside walls.
- She closed her eyes for a moment as she tore the tarpaulin off the person beneath it.
- The Cabernet Sauvignon 1999 is reduced to €14.20 a bottle - that is €3.50 off its regular price.
- It is an objective to get so many people off the unemployment roll, or so many more students into university.
- The ship suffered huge damage, which ultimately caused the keel to tear itself off the boat's hull.
- Remove a good slice off the top of each onion, then place them in a baking tin or ovenproof dish.
- I have torn the cuticle off my left big toe by scraping the fridge door over it.
- Donald Dewar, however, will be taking some of the burden off her shoulders this weekend.
- The blast was so powerful that it ripped iron security doors in the building off their hinges.
- He had cut the arms off his black T-shirt, the one with an Indian chief printed on the front.
- Tariq was flung to the ground amid shattered glass and looked up to see his front door had been blown off its hinges.
- In order to do this, you have to remove the hub off the shaft and knock the rivets out.
- I wrote to the originator of the list and told them please take my name off your list as I have no interest in being in your group.
- So much for taking the burden off the workers and making the aged more self-reliant!
- Luque will take some of the burden off Shearer, but he won't score so many goals.
- They tore metal window bars off the front of Parnella House and were smashing the bus shelter with them.
- All I have to do is to turn into a brutal fascist pig and angrily rip the covers off their bed while screaming at them.
- I glared at him as he walked over to the counter and ripped a piece of paper off the roll.
- 3.1 Absent from.
缺席；不工作 I took a couple of days off work 请了几天假不去上班。 Example sentencesExamples - As a response to this action some employees have stayed off the job for almost two weeks.
- He said the workers plan to remain off work until the money is paid into their accounts.
- Paying for three senior officers to stay off work is a luxury no one can afford.
- If they put in their required weekly practice time, he would reward them by letting them take a day off school to go on a family ski trip.
- The doctor has given me a week off work to rest and recuperate.
- 3.2informal Abstaining from.
不在 he managed to stay off alcohol 他设法戒掉了酒。 Example sentencesExamples - Since he started the implants she says her son has stayed off heroin and for the first time there is hope he could be free of it forever.
- After five years off cigarettes, your risk of developing cancer is greatly decreased.
- After hearing her tale of blind panic in the deep, you too will be struggling to stay off the cream cakes.
- Miss Creamer was on remand at New Hall on a theft charge and was being given treatment to wean her off drugs.
- If this means staying off the usual glass or three of wine per evening for a bit, so be it.
- In the future all I hope is that I stay off drugs and keep clean, get my children back, get my own house and a good job.
- Although he promised to stay off alcohol, he went on a binge last month in his local pub.
- He has embarked on yet another comeback and is apparently off the booze.
- However there was some success, with a quarter managing to stay off the fags for more than three months.
- For children it can mean staying off sweets or some of their other favourite things of life.
- Remember to reach out for help when you feel your commitment to stay off drugs is waning.
- We hope to convince every motorist to stay off alcohol if they plan to get behind the wheel and drive home.
- Often when people come off drugs, they have no place in society.
- Now with coeliac disease you've got to really get off gluten and stay off gluten.
- The alcohol reacted to my system in a way that has turned me off alcohol for life.
- Spud, still struggling to stay off heroin, learns about working class history.
- I've been off cocaine for years now and you know that!
4informal Having a temporary dislike of. he's running a temperature and he's off his food 他在发烧，不想吃东西。 Example sentencesExamples - With the onset of summer, the Big Cats suddenly go off food and spend most of the time in water.
- He was still trying to put her off her food, even though he was a little late.
- And then I woke this morning to little IM messages from Greg… mmmmm! But I'm still off men.
- I saw one of these rooms in Chinook and it was enough to turn me off food for a couple of hours.
adjective ɒf 1attributive Characterized by performing or feeling worse than usual; unsatisfactory or inadequate. 临场发挥不佳的；感觉比平时差的；令人不满意的 even the greatest athletes have off days 即使是最好的运动员也有发挥失常的时候。 Example sentencesExamples - Even great teams have their off moments.
- It could be, of course, that he just had an off night for he faded after a bright opening.
- Did the Olympic sprinter lose in the final because of the intense atmosphere or because he or she had an off day?
- It was a shame to be there on an off night, but the upside was quick and friendly service from the bar staff.
- It is the sign of a good team that they can still get something on an off day.
- How much kudos is there really in beating Milan's B team or Ajax on an off day?
- Every player experiences off nights when nothing works.
- We appreciate each other's input all the time, and if one of us is having an off day, the other one picks up.
- We were really poor and it is strange that you get so many players having an off game.
- They're not the toughest team Switzerland, but even a weak team can beat you on an off day can't they?
- When the starting pitcher gets tired or is having an off day, a team manager calls in a reliever.
- Anyone can have an off day, and we'll draw a veil over which one of us it was.
- Episode II is probably the weakest so for but then we all have an off day now and then.
- Sure, everyone is due an off day, but it seemed weird that so many suffered one simultaneously.
- No bemoaning of luck or excuses of an off night can hide the facts this time.
- Woodward will be hoping that Humphreys has an off day on Saturday, however.
- They had a decent first half and a very good second half while Hearts, despite bags of effort, had an off day.
- He just has an off day at Cheltenham and the flatter Aintree circuit suits him much better.
- Millwall haven't fluked their way into the final and the Reds could have an off day.
- Still, as Aristotle might have said on an off day, the judges' decision is final.
- 1.1British informal predicative Unwell.
〈英，非正式〉不舒服的 我实在觉得不舒服。 Example sentencesExamples - The 19-year-old student woke up feeling ‘a bit off’ but went to her part-time job at a clothing store anyway.
- Am feeling a little off today - like I might be coming down with something.
- I sit out by the loft and observe the birds a lot and if one looks a bit off I can see it.
Synonyms unwell, ill, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out unwell, ill, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out
2predicative (of food) no longer fresh. （食物）不新鲜的 鱼有点不新鲜了。 Example sentencesExamples - The brining solution in the can may react to the metal and give the olives an off taste.
- Her coffee was bad, maybe the milk was off.
- The manager also arrived to apologise, though he did not agree with my view that the fish was off.
- If a wine smells off, chances are it won't taste right, either.
Synonyms rotten, bad, stale, mouldy, high, sour, rancid, turned, spoiled, putrid, putrescent 3attributive Located on the side of a vehicle that is normally furthest from the kerb; offside. 在车辆离人行道边缘最远的一侧的；（某些体育比赛）越位的。比较NEAR （义项4） Compare with near (sense 4 of the adjective) 4British informal predicative Annoying or unfair. 〈英，非正式〉令人不快的；不公平的 His boss deducted the money from his pay. That was a bit off 他的老板从他工资里扣掉了那笔钱。这么做有点不公道。 Example sentencesExamples - We were there to learn and listening to a boring old bloke talking about things which we considered irrelevant to 17 year old West Midlanders was a bit off.
- Sometimes I think it's a bit off when clubs expect you to make a choice.
Synonyms unfair, unjust, uncalled for, below the belt, unacceptable, unjustified, unjustifiable, unreasonable, unsatisfactory, unwarranted, unnecessary, inequitable informal a bit much British informal out of order, a bit thick Australian/New Zealand informal over the fence 5British informal predicative Unfriendly or hostile. 〈英，非正式〉不友好的；敌对的 there's no one there except the barmaid, and she's a bit off 那儿除了那个女招待一个人都没有，而且她态度有点生硬。 Example sentencesExamples - She seemed to be a bit off with me and I felt like crying.
- What's up, mate? You're really off.
- The woman who wrote the report was really off with me right from the minute we met.
Synonyms unfriendly, aloof, cool, cold, distant, chilly, frosty, hostile, frigid, unresponsive, unapproachable, uncommunicative informal stand-offish, offish
noun ɒf 1Cricket
The half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) towards which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball. 〔板球〕击球手对面的半场（击球手站立接球时双足所对准的半场）。LEG 的反义词 The opposite of leg Example sentencesExamples - Headland bats with real style and is deadly square of the wicket on the off side.
- The fields above the village were terraced and the leg-side fielders stood six feet above the wicket while those on the off side were six feet below it.
- Bradman hit only one four in front of the wicket on the off, but 14 to the on by means of drives and his celebrated pull.
- He doesn't have the same type of mystery ball which turns to the off as Mushtaq, but he can bowl a top spinner which goes straight on.
2British informal The start of a race, journey, or experience. now Ian is ready for the off 现在伊恩准备好起跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - Coach Richard Midgley was pleased with the outcome and feels he has his men in peak form for the off.
- Pete Buck and Phil Smith attacked from the off, rattling up 106 for the first wicket.
- Now, let me admit right from the off that I've never done any tunny fishing myself.
- Preston looked comfortable from the off, and took the lead after just nine minutes.
- I ate one before the off, and the other one during the race.
- Both teams seemed energised at the off.
verb ɒf informal 1no object Leave. 离开 supposedly loyal workers suddenly upped and offed to the new firms 被认为忠诚的工人们突然离开，去了新的大公司。 Example sentencesExamples - It was revealed last week that Desmond has relocated his business to avoid tax in Britain-in other words, he's upped and offed in search of a better life.
- I understood that comprehensive education was designed to call a halt to the tragedy of those left behind when the grammar school kids upped and offed.
- Thankfully most of the fashionista lookalikes have upped and offed by now, and so much the better.
2North American with object Kill; murder. 〈北美〉杀死；谋杀 I finally snapped and offed the guy Example sentencesExamples - Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the best way to prove your innocence of murder is by offing a bunch of law enforcement officers.
- Since he'll probably inherit a big chunk of Castillo's surprisingly large estate, he may have half a dozen motives for offing his old man.
- Meanwhile, there is a serial killer who is offing people left and right in the ‘hood.
- It is not made clear just why Sebastian snaps to the degree he does, but he suddenly becomes a murderous, kill-crazed loony, offing his co-workers one by one.
- I realized her precarious emotional state and immediately offered to go take care of the grisly task of offing her turkey.
- Still, I'm betting everyone who caught the first couple of episodes wants to know who offed Lilly Kane, and you can count me among the obsessives.
- Her babysitter was slaughtered but Rachel managed to escape - though not before offing Bateman with an ice pick!
- The rogues ransack the place in search of a treasure map, offing the men and carting the women, including feisty Violet Miranda, onto a ship run by the dastardly but suave Captain Calico Jack.
- It seems that Jason is back from the dead and getting back in the saddle offing good looking, nubile co-eds and stupid adults.
- Hey, do you think they might even be evil enough to have a hand in the ‘accident’ that offed their friends in the first place?
- Detective Blake, the cop in charge of the investigation, thinks Rick offed his wife, although Rick claims he was out of town at the time of the murder.
- So, on election night, while the media spotlight was pointed elsewhere, Harvey was offed.
- Since the police station was bombed and someone offed his wife, Tom has been mighty surly.
- I mean just because I offed a couple of relatives of theirs doesn't mean they have to become all homicidal and try to kill me.
- Rick offed one of his own guys, but he deserved it for shooting me.
- All I know, Briggs, is I've got a source who tells me this guy will be offed by the Vigilante.
- Two of the robbers are brothers, and one becomes violently angry when the cop offs his sibling.
- In the meantime, they assassinated their vice president and just missed offing the president.
- They are in Hollywood, on the set of the movie Stab 3, where members of the cast are being eviscerated in the same order that their characters were offed in the screenplay.
- So he offs a go-go dancer with a toxic rose and shoots a stripper with a blowgun.
UsageOff of is often used in place of the preposition off in contexts such as she picked it up off of the floor (compared with she picked it up off the floor). Although off of is recorded from the 16th century (it was used by Shakespeare) and is logically parallel to the standard out of, it is regarded as incorrect in standard modern English PhrasesIntermittently; now and then. 间歇地；偶尔 Example sentencesExamples - About ten minutes after I hung up the phone, it started raining hard, and did so off and on for most of the day.
- I've been a fan of hip hop off and on since the 80s and the genre seems to work in fits and spurts.
- As someone who has tried to cast light on the mystery off and on for the last 40 years, I was becoming increasingly sceptical.
- I've never met Ronnie's wife, even though I talked to her off and on for a long time via email.
- Your post made me think of an issue I've thought about off and on for some time now.
- Yet it was the beginning of a struggle with alcohol which for the next four years, off and on, got me into trouble.
- I spent the rest of the weekend listening to the CD off and on, while driving around.
- You know, I've been talking to Judy off and on about this case for the last year.
- There've been other really good people that I've worked with off and on over the years.
- We have visited and filmed them off and on for the past six months.
Synonyms periodically, at intervals, on and off, once in a while, every once in a while, every so often, now and again, now and then, every now and again, every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, on occasion, on occasions, on the odd occasion, at times, sometimes, sporadically, spasmodically, erratically, irregularly, intermittently, by fits and starts, in fits and starts, fitfully, discontinuously, piecemeal
OriginOld English, originally a variant of of (which combined the senses of 'of' and 'off'). Rhymesboff, cough, doff, far-off, quaff, roll-on roll-off, scoff, telling-off, toff, trough Definition of off in US English: offadverb 1Away from the place in question; to or at a distance. 离开；在某地以外 那个人跑掉了。 she dashed off to her room 她一下子走开冲进了自己的房间。 我们现在得走了。 Example sentencesExamples - A policewoman told a jury how she ran after a driver who sped off as she was questioning him.
- Terrified, Mr Austin did as he was told and then called the police after seeing his car speed off into the distance.
- They crouched in the distance then lolloped off, not into the woods, but over bare ground to the horizon.
- Closing the distance between us she veered off to my left and stood beside me, facing in the opposite direction.
- The train stayed full with people getting off and on all the way although I didn't see standees.
- The distances involved in the US make it hard to rush off to a weekend tournament.
- Take your children for a drive following that route, so they know where to get on and off.
- The song finishes and we say a few more individual goodnights and head off to our room.
- He exited the court room immediately, walking off to the jubilation of the watching fans.
- I was good about not taking a lot of time on my sites this morning, but now I must be off.
- Along the shoreline not far off, people dip-netted for hooligan, an oily spring fish.
- By 6pm that evening the ship had sailed off into the distance to meet its fateful end.
- I wandered off into the sitting room and came back with a great pile of CDs.
- She shoos me out of her nice clean treatment room and I totter off feeling not exactly relaxed.
- As the carriage turned to head up to the main entrance, Jak grabbed her waist and jumped off.
- Ali saw some birds diving in the distance so off we went at high speed to fish that spot.
- A thought suddenly glimmers in his eye - he gets up and hurries off to his room, beckoning after me.
- I wandered off into the changing room and changed into my spare uniform.
- Then there was the attractive man across the seat who kept staring off into the distance.
- The lake was on our left, stretching off into the distance and covered by a heavy haze.
Synonyms away, to a distance, from here, from there - 1.1 Away from the main route.
偏离主道 离开主道，前往里彭。 Example sentencesExamples - Traffic is a nightmare by about 4pm for a few hours and there is only one route off.
- Police then chased the van which drove in the direction of Newbridge before turning off for the race-course.
- You can either go down the well-trodden route or detour off onto another track.
- The branch line can be mapped as a line running next to the main line until the location where they split off.
- The path veers off to the right to bring you to the summit of Hindscarth, marked with a large cairn.
- The dive centre is off to the left as you enter the main part of the village.
2So as to be removed or separated. 掉；开 他迅速脱掉外衣。 a section of the runway had been cordoned off 跑道的一段已用警戒线隔开了。 Example sentencesExamples - Parts of the area were fenced off for weeks while Wessex Water laid the main.
- They placed her in the recovery position and took her coat off, using their own clothes to keep her warm.
- It is next to a set of doors and screened off from the main carriage - without seats for companions.
- If they must graze on the hillside, the reservoir must be fenced off to keep them at a safe distance.
- The bed would usually be screened off from the main hall by a curtain, often embroidered.
- It's a little swollen now, but I can still get the ring off and on without any problem.
- It matters not whether the brandy ignites, but the alcohol must be boiled off.
- Then as the day went on, I'd cross things off when I'd done them and add new items to the bottom.
- Up to a third of the university's 1,800 rooms could be sold off as part of the plan.
- The site was cordoned off and US military officials removed top secret equipment.
- This is because to lose weight and keep it off, you must adjust what and how you eat permanently.
- The march route is being blocked off and motorists in the area could be delayed for some time.
- It is expected that some routes will be cordoned off to motorists and members of the public.
- The US military said the main road had now been completely sealed off.
- But recently the route has suffered erosion and has been closed off from use for all but one day a month.
- Cut these off to the main stem, even if you have to dig away some soil to get to them.
- The best way to lose weight and keep it off is to remove as much fat from the diet as possible.
- By the way why is the play park for kids built near a busy main road and not even fenced off?
- The main display area and the balcony have been closed off since last summer.
- The second-floor room was sealed off as officers carried out a detailed search.
- 2.1 Absent; away from work.
缺席；不工作 休息一天。 他请病假没来上班。 Example sentencesExamples - However her health was not good enough to allow this and she was forced to take another year off on sick leave.
- When I had my daughter, I took over a year off from medical school to be with her.
- Fingers crossed that I get Tuesdays off and I could race home for Monday night games.
- I just spent a very invigorating half hour talking to the boss about some time off for you.
- Because I am still off sick I feel duty bound to stay indoors all day and do nothing.
- I'm off for the next week and a bit - eight days in Berlin with some old chums who are touring the continent as we speak.
- We'll take a week off as soon as the route is announced and drive it all the way.
- What will they do with their children all week long when swimming is out of the question until dad is off at the weekend.
- In some jobs, and this is one of them, there is no such thing as a day off, or a night off, or a holiday without interruption.
Synonyms away, absent, out, unavailable, not working, not at work, off duty, on holiday, on leave, free, at leisure, idle
3Starting a journey or race; leaving. 出发 the gunmen made off on foot 那些持枪歹徒步行逃跑了。 他们出发了！ Example sentencesExamples - With the interview over, Riddle announces he will be off on holiday with his family.
- We try to grab a bit of toast or something, and we are off to the races.
- When you shut the latch of your front door and head off to a race, you do so with a different mindset that sets the tone for the weekend.
- Then she flew off for a three-week holiday in the sun with her husband and younger child.
- It is wonderful to have a convenient airport from which to jet off on holiday or on business.
- I'd also rather like her to be working properly again by the time I go off on holiday.
- On a day trip to Dublin today, and off to Prague tomorrow morning for the bank holiday.
- He is off on his holidays to Kerry this week and is taking a book he says he is really looking forward to reading.
- I leave again tonight for some more stuff in New York, then off to the Texas race.
- After today's race Tergat is off to America to collect an honorary degree from a New York university.
- Midwives from Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust are off on a research journey to China.
- If, like me, you are off on a driving holiday this year, make a selection of tapes to take with you.
- Once my sleigh is packed and ready to go, I'll be off on my journey around the world.
- School time is for learning, it's not for swanning off on cheap holidays to catch some winter sun.
- The teenager had waited with a female friend at a bus stop before heading off on the short journey home.
- They'd get to the station and they'd be off on their journey to a new world, she couldn't wait.
- If you are one of the many people who are booked to go off on holiday in the next few weeks you may be asking yourself this question.
- He will now be jetting off on a luxury holiday to Ibiza thanks to the Child of Achievement charity.
- It feels like a betrayal to be flying off on holiday when there are so many problems to deal with.
- War is declared at about the same time as Inman's love for Ada and he must march off to battle.
4So as to bring to an end or be discontinued. 结束；停止 the Christmas party rounded off a hugely successful year 圣诞晚会圆满结束了这非常成功的一年。 she broke off her reading to look at her husband 她停止阅读举目看她的丈夫。 Example sentencesExamples - The party was a resounding success, topped off by Nobby Clark walking the plank into Bangor harbour.
- Talks between the two sides broke off in May.
- ‘It can't be,’ said Carl, his voice trailing off.
- The weekend was rounded off nicely with some good news from the doctor on Monday.
- The show is rounded off by the reader auctioning a copy of The Phone Book he or she has signed.
- You only receive free credit if you clear the debt off in full at the end of the month.
- Muir's second try was rounded off by James Reilly, who had supplied all of the rest of the points by way of his boot.
- That won't last, though, since there is now no excuse for us not getting the room finished off.
- The day is finished off with a bit of fun, doing short downhill routes and skills sections with jumps and so on in the fun park.
- The day was rounded off with a tour of the formal rooms and the visitors' centre.
- The event was rounded off with a party in a barn for the hundreds of YFC members.
- A perfect day was rounded off with a viewing of a restored print of Citizen Kane in one of the centre's cinemas.
- The festival will be rounded off on Sunday with a free and easy all-in open session.
- The volume is rounded off by an admirably comprehensive bibliography and a useful index.
- Shrek 2 opens where the first film left off, with Shrek and Fiona on their honeymoon.
- The day was rounded off by a disco at Pitsea Leisure Centre for all the participants in the carnival.
- We started kissing, then after some time we broke off and just held each other.
- 4.1 Canceled.
取消 tell them the wedding's off 告诉他们婚礼取消了。 Example sentencesExamples - He thinks he will have to tell Stuart to call the wedding off because Sindi is dodgy.
- Dave said visitors to the Royal Oak will have to make do with a pint only - the menu is definitely off.
- Last year the race had to be called off because of the foot and mouth crisis.
- He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
- Apparently, there had been an announcement on a local radio station saying the event was off.
- She returned the money when, on the day of the ceremony, the wedding was called off.
- The journey is called off, replanned for some other time. Today was one of those days.
- While some high profile projects have been killed off, in the main the government has no idea how to replace them.
Synonyms cancelled, postponed, called off, abandoned, shelved - 4.2British informal (of a menu item) temporarily unavailable.
〈英，非正式〉（菜单上的菜）暂时没有 草莓暂时没有。 Example sentencesExamples - For starters, I went for deep-fried lobster tails, only to be told the lobster was off.
- Give us fruit, cheese, or just tell us dessert is off, but spare us monstrosities like ‘tartufo’, a ball of synthetic vanilla ice cream in a saccharine-sweet meringue jacket.
Synonyms unavailable, unobtainable, finished, sold out
5(of an electrical appliance or power supply) not functioning or so as to cease to function. （电器，供电）关闭，断开 关闭电视机。 the electricity was off for four days 电断了四天。 Example sentencesExamples - In order to repair the cable and make it safe we had to turn the power off.
- He beamed and waved back then he closed his window and turned his lights off.
- Back in the room, John lit one of the smaller lamps and left the rest of the lights off.
- Chris ran back and shut the lights off in the truck since they wouldn't be required.
- I've heard that leaving a light on for a given length of time may use less energy than turning it off and on again.
- You can leave the lights off and not worry about being spotted through the window.
- The lights flash off and on, and the phones are cut as guards try to get people moving out of the room for the next set of visitors.
- He was trying to clear a jam, but failed to switch the power off before doing so.
- So many people seem to enjoy saying that they sit with the lights off and don't answer the door on Halloween.
- The tape player sat on the floor of my bedsit in Bromley, and I used to turn it on and off with my foot.
- Speakers would cut out at random, and would only come back on when I turned the amp off and on again, or turned it up to full volume.
- Several weeks after the completion of his work the office lights would go off and on intermittently.
- His nephew, on being unable to turn the computer off, decided to pull the plug out of the mains.
- He had watched lights go on and off in the tower during the next couple of hours.
- If this happens again, I might have to employ my Halloween night trick of staying in with the lights off.
- The light technician turns the lights off and on to the rhythm of the music.
- She was grateful that she had found some candles, because the power had been flickering off and on.
- When I switch the engine off and on and activate the wiper lever they restart - although this is of little help on the motorway.
- I also make sure that I turn the charger plug off at the mains when it's not actually charging the laptop.
- As seen here, however, often the best strategy is to turn the pacemaker off or to remove it altogether.
6Having access to or possession of material goods or wealth to the extent specified. 获得；拥有 we'd been rather badly off for books 我们很缺图书。 how are you off for money? 你有多少钱？ Example sentencesExamples - And with rises in council tax and other bills, I'm actually going to be worse off next April.
- Arthur's a lot better off than half the population - he's got a home and a steady job.
- I went over and he said, ‘How are you off for grub?’
- He found that the company was not nearly as badly off as he had initially thought.
preposition 1Moving away and often down from. 从…离开；向下 他从床上滚了下来。 the coat slipped off his arms 大衣从他的手臂上脱了下来。 trying to get us off the stage 企图把我们赶下台。 Example sentencesExamples - On Tuesday evening, a plane managed to slide off the runway and sink axle-deep in the mud.
- Like a true Brit, I hold on to summer until the last leaves have fallen off the trees.
- Before I can even process what day it is, I hop off my bed and head for the broom every morning.
- He had coincidentally just fallen off his seat, so after an amazing start we were in quite some disarray.
- His men were given the task of moving swiftly off the beach and joining up with the paratroopers who had landed inland.
- The manager had hardly stepped off the plane on his return before being told his services were no longer required.
- She folded her arms and Kev reluctantly jumped down off the stage so he didn't have to yell all the way across the room.
- She grinned and disappeared off the main deck and appeared standing on the beach on the little island.
- It looks like Drey had just been playing a game, jumping off bunk beds, when he suffered fatal injuries.
- He was playing the part of a stranded climber, injured in a fall and dangling perilously off the rock face.
- And then at the end of their set, they walk off the stage only to come back a minute later.
- As I watch, it slips off the edge and rolls down the slope into a thicket of thorny bushes.
- The essence of the message to both young and older children is - stay off the line, it is a dangerous place.
- I keep a waste paper bin next to the chair I sit on so I had visions of it having bounced off the arm of the chair and into the bin.
- At times, it looked as if she would fall but she quickly caught himself and made her way off the stage.
- I took everything off my bed, which had been my storage place, and put my sheets in to be washed.
- The guards crossed the room to her and one jerked her arms, dragging her off the bed.
- We also managed to get a few photos of the stars themselves on and off the stage.
- Hey, I'd be the first one to come down off the stage and throw a punch if that were to happen.
- I didn't mean to push her off the bed but it just so happened that she fell to the floor.
2Situated or leading in a direction away from (a main route or intersection) 从（主道，交叉点）偏离，分岔 single wires leading off the main lines 从主线向外分散的单线。 a backstreet off Olympic Boulevard Example sentencesExamples - Just off the main consumer drag of Regent Street runs humble Heddon Street.
- This was the second application for the vicarage, situated off Skipton Road and Haw Grove.
- I live in a very nice 2 bedroom house not far from the city centre in a quiet street just off a main road.
- The businessmen were on a part of the Wall that is off the main tourist trail.
- She strengthened her grip on my arm, steered me onto a smaller path which forked off the main route to the left.
- She will shout at him and then he will take her for a drink in some shady bar off the main street and fall in love with her.
- After leading them through the back streets off Burtonstone Lane, he escaped on foot.
- You can see where many trails merge, popular browsing routes, places off the beaten track maybe.
- He spoke to the driver and the car turned onto a quiet track off the main road.
- There were three different types of toilets in the yards off the main street.
- The hotel is situated just off the A9, north of Ballinluig and south of Pitlochry.
- Bear right through the gate off the main path and begin the steep, steep ascent directly to the summit.
- The spate of incidents have taken place over the last few days at Dovercourt Cemetery, off Main Road.
- I still cannot get my head round the idea that golf's holy of holies is situated just off a busy dual carriageway.
- Unity Day will be held at Hyde Park, situated off Hyde Park Road and Moorhouse Lane.
- Would these people come to a village pub off a main thoroughfare if the food was as bad as your reviewer makes out?
- The new pool in the Gorbals is off the main bus route and, in any case, the ladies are not allowed to book it.
- Situated just off Filey's main thoroughfare, this proved to be a busy venue.
- The development will be located in the centre of the town off the main Limerick to Galway road.
- The business people on and off Main Street have put in a huge contribution in the past three years.
- 2.1 Out at sea from (a place on the coast)
在（海岸以外的）海上 在布鲁湾外抛锚。 在离敦刻尔克六英里的海上。 Example sentencesExamples - Much bigger windfarms are due to be built, including some off the Yorkshire coast.
- On the return voyage, his ship was lost off Cape Cod, but he and his crew were rescued.
- It was so hot off Spain's Mediterranean coast that water temperatures rose by three degrees.
- Just off the coast of Venezuela, Bonaire is also one of the top two dive sites in the Caribbean.
- Several fishing boats have also gone missing off the northern main island of Luzon.
- Boats off the Donegal coast will be restricted to just nine days fishing a month.
- American authorities will have an aircraft carrier anchored off the coast.
- The new tidal project, at the Fall of Warness, off Eday, will see four test berths.
- Three years ago we also bought an island with a tumbledown house off the Welsh coast.
- His parents moved to Paisley from a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.
- One of the world's biggest wind farms could be built off the coast of Essex.
- Snapper and teraglin have been the main catches off Ballina and Evans.
- The big boys may have had it all their own way since oil was discovered off the north-east coast.
- As a youth I went mackerel fishing with an old boy called Sam off the Norfolk coast.
- The ship, on her inaugural cruise after a multi-million refurbishment, anchored off Milford Haven while her passengers were led on a variety of excursions.
- Eventually, Frank and his comrades anchored three miles off the French coast at day break.
- Duvillaun is one of the largest islands off the Irish coast and is renowned as a wildlife haven.
- Several types of endangered sea turtles live in the waters off the Angolan coast.
- The ship was visiting Albania to conduct survey operations off the coast.
- They farm tuna in similar ponds in colder deeper waters off the coast of South Australia.
3So as to be removed or separated from. 掉；开 threatening to tear it off its hinges 威胁要把它从铰链上拉下来。 they are knocking $2,000 off the price 他们在把价钱降低2，000美元。 figurative it's a huge burden off my shoulders 〈喻〉这大大减轻了我的负担。 Example sentencesExamples - I have torn the cuticle off my left big toe by scraping the fridge door over it.
- He had cut the arms off his black T-shirt, the one with an Indian chief printed on the front.
- Tariq was flung to the ground amid shattered glass and looked up to see his front door had been blown off its hinges.
- Luque will take some of the burden off Shearer, but he won't score so many goals.
- She closed her eyes for a moment as she tore the tarpaulin off the person beneath it.
- In order to do this, you have to remove the hub off the shaft and knock the rivets out.
- I wrote to the originator of the list and told them please take my name off your list as I have no interest in being in your group.
- Pulling the leaves off thyme sprigs can be painstaking - when the branching stems are twiggy, you can't strip the stalk bare in one clean sweep.
- It is an objective to get so many people off the unemployment roll, or so many more students into university.
- So much for taking the burden off the workers and making the aged more self-reliant!
- The ship suffered huge damage, which ultimately caused the keel to tear itself off the boat's hull.
- Remove a good slice off the top of each onion, then place them in a baking tin or ovenproof dish.
- When Ford knocked $700 off the price, sales shot up, and the Super Cab now accounts for 70 percent of all Rangers sold.
- Donald Dewar, however, will be taking some of the burden off her shoulders this weekend.
- All I have to do is to turn into a brutal fascist pig and angrily rip the covers off their bed while screaming at them.
- They started by taking the plaster off the outside walls.
- They tore metal window bars off the front of Parnella House and were smashing the bus shelter with them.
- I glared at him as he walked over to the counter and ripped a piece of paper off the roll.
- The blast was so powerful that it ripped iron security doors in the building off their hinges.
- The Cabernet Sauvignon 1999 is reduced to €14.20 a bottle - that is €3.50 off its regular price.
- 3.1 Absent from.
缺席；不工作 I took a couple of days off work 请了几天假不去上班。 Example sentencesExamples - He said the workers plan to remain off work until the money is paid into their accounts.
- As a response to this action some employees have stayed off the job for almost two weeks.
- If they put in their required weekly practice time, he would reward them by letting them take a day off school to go on a family ski trip.
- The doctor has given me a week off work to rest and recuperate.
- Paying for three senior officers to stay off work is a luxury no one can afford.
- 3.2informal Abstaining from.
不在 he managed to stay off alcohol 他设法戒掉了酒。 Example sentencesExamples - The alcohol reacted to my system in a way that has turned me off alcohol for life.
- Spud, still struggling to stay off heroin, learns about working class history.
- For children it can mean staying off sweets or some of their other favourite things of life.
- Since he started the implants she says her son has stayed off heroin and for the first time there is hope he could be free of it forever.
- He has embarked on yet another comeback and is apparently off the booze.
- After hearing her tale of blind panic in the deep, you too will be struggling to stay off the cream cakes.
- However there was some success, with a quarter managing to stay off the fags for more than three months.
- We hope to convince every motorist to stay off alcohol if they plan to get behind the wheel and drive home.
- Now with coeliac disease you've got to really get off gluten and stay off gluten.
- If this means staying off the usual glass or three of wine per evening for a bit, so be it.
- Although he promised to stay off alcohol, he went on a binge last month in his local pub.
- After five years off cigarettes, your risk of developing cancer is greatly decreased.
- Miss Creamer was on remand at New Hall on a theft charge and was being given treatment to wean her off drugs.
- Remember to reach out for help when you feel your commitment to stay off drugs is waning.
- Often when people come off drugs, they have no place in society.
- In the future all I hope is that I stay off drugs and keep clean, get my children back, get my own house and a good job.
- I've been off cocaine for years now and you know that!
adjective 1attributive Characterized by performing or feeling worse than usual; unsatisfactory or inadequate. 临场发挥不佳的；感觉比平时差的；令人不满意的 even the greatest athletes have off days 即使是最好的运动员也有发挥失常的时候。 Example sentencesExamples - They're not the toughest team Switzerland, but even a weak team can beat you on an off day can't they?
- Anyone can have an off day, and we'll draw a veil over which one of us it was.
- Millwall haven't fluked their way into the final and the Reds could have an off day.
- It was a shame to be there on an off night, but the upside was quick and friendly service from the bar staff.
- We were really poor and it is strange that you get so many players having an off game.
- It is the sign of a good team that they can still get something on an off day.
- We appreciate each other's input all the time, and if one of us is having an off day, the other one picks up.
- Woodward will be hoping that Humphreys has an off day on Saturday, however.
- When the starting pitcher gets tired or is having an off day, a team manager calls in a reliever.
- No bemoaning of luck or excuses of an off night can hide the facts this time.
- They had a decent first half and a very good second half while Hearts, despite bags of effort, had an off day.
- Still, as Aristotle might have said on an off day, the judges' decision is final.
- Every player experiences off nights when nothing works.
- He just has an off day at Cheltenham and the flatter Aintree circuit suits him much better.
- Episode II is probably the weakest so for but then we all have an off day now and then.
- Even great teams have their off moments.
- Did the Olympic sprinter lose in the final because of the intense atmosphere or because he or she had an off day?
- Sure, everyone is due an off day, but it seemed weird that so many suffered one simultaneously.
- How much kudos is there really in beating Milan's B team or Ajax on an off day?
- It could be, of course, that he just had an off night for he faded after a bright opening.
- 1.1British informal predicative Unwell.
〈英，非正式〉不舒服的 我实在觉得不舒服。 Example sentencesExamples - The 19-year-old student woke up feeling ‘a bit off’ but went to her part-time job at a clothing store anyway.
- Am feeling a little off today - like I might be coming down with something.
- I sit out by the loft and observe the birds a lot and if one looks a bit off I can see it.
Synonyms unwell, ill, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out unwell, ill, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out
2predicative (of food) no longer fresh. （食物）不新鲜的 鱼有点不新鲜了。 Example sentencesExamples - The manager also arrived to apologise, though he did not agree with my view that the fish was off.
- If a wine smells off, chances are it won't taste right, either.
- Her coffee was bad, maybe the milk was off.
- The brining solution in the can may react to the metal and give the olives an off taste.
Synonyms rotten, bad, stale, mouldy, high, sour, rancid, turned, spoiled, putrid, putrescent 3attributive Located on the side of a vehicle that is normally furthest from the curb; offside. 在车辆离人行道边缘最远的一侧的；（某些体育比赛）越位的。比较NEAR （义项4） Compare with near (sense 4 of the adjective) 4British informal predicative Annoying or unfair. 〈英，非正式〉令人不快的；不公平的 His boss deducted the money from his pay. That was a bit off 他的老板从他工资里扣掉了那笔钱。这么做有点不公道。 Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes I think it's a bit off when clubs expect you to make a choice.
- We were there to learn and listening to a boring old bloke talking about things which we considered irrelevant to 17 year old West Midlanders was a bit off.
Synonyms unfair, unjust, uncalled for, below the belt, unacceptable, unjustified, unjustifiable, unreasonable, unsatisfactory, unwarranted, unnecessary, inequitable
noun Cricket The half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) toward which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball. 〔板球〕击球手对面的半场（击球手站立接球时双足所对准的半场）。LEG 的反义词 The opposite of leg Example sentencesExamples - He doesn't have the same type of mystery ball which turns to the off as Mushtaq, but he can bowl a top spinner which goes straight on.
- Bradman hit only one four in front of the wicket on the off, but 14 to the on by means of drives and his celebrated pull.
- Headland bats with real style and is deadly square of the wicket on the off side.
- The fields above the village were terraced and the leg-side fielders stood six feet above the wicket while those on the off side were six feet below it.
verb [with object]North American informal Kill; murder. 〈北美〉杀死；谋杀 I finally snapped and offed the guy Example sentencesExamples - The rogues ransack the place in search of a treasure map, offing the men and carting the women, including feisty Violet Miranda, onto a ship run by the dastardly but suave Captain Calico Jack.
- Her babysitter was slaughtered but Rachel managed to escape - though not before offing Bateman with an ice pick!
- Rick offed one of his own guys, but he deserved it for shooting me.
- Two of the robbers are brothers, and one becomes violently angry when the cop offs his sibling.
- They are in Hollywood, on the set of the movie Stab 3, where members of the cast are being eviscerated in the same order that their characters were offed in the screenplay.
- It seems that Jason is back from the dead and getting back in the saddle offing good looking, nubile co-eds and stupid adults.
- All I know, Briggs, is I've got a source who tells me this guy will be offed by the Vigilante.
- Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the best way to prove your innocence of murder is by offing a bunch of law enforcement officers.
- Since he'll probably inherit a big chunk of Castillo's surprisingly large estate, he may have half a dozen motives for offing his old man.
- In the meantime, they assassinated their vice president and just missed offing the president.
- I realized her precarious emotional state and immediately offered to go take care of the grisly task of offing her turkey.
- Since the police station was bombed and someone offed his wife, Tom has been mighty surly.
- Meanwhile, there is a serial killer who is offing people left and right in the ‘hood.
- Still, I'm betting everyone who caught the first couple of episodes wants to know who offed Lilly Kane, and you can count me among the obsessives.
- Detective Blake, the cop in charge of the investigation, thinks Rick offed his wife, although Rick claims he was out of town at the time of the murder.
- It is not made clear just why Sebastian snaps to the degree he does, but he suddenly becomes a murderous, kill-crazed loony, offing his co-workers one by one.
- I mean just because I offed a couple of relatives of theirs doesn't mean they have to become all homicidal and try to kill me.
- Hey, do you think they might even be evil enough to have a hand in the ‘accident’ that offed their friends in the first place?
- So, on election night, while the media spotlight was pointed elsewhere, Harvey was offed.
- So he offs a go-go dancer with a toxic rose and shoots a stripper with a blowgun.
UsageOff of is often used in place of the preposition off in contexts such as she picked it up off of the floor (compared with she picked it up off the floor). Although off of is recorded from the 16th century (it was used by Shakespeare) and is logically parallel to the standard out of, it is regarded as incorrect in standard modern English PhrasesIntermittently; now and then. 间歇地；偶尔 Example sentencesExamples - About ten minutes after I hung up the phone, it started raining hard, and did so off and on for most of the day.
- I've never met Ronnie's wife, even though I talked to her off and on for a long time via email.
- There've been other really good people that I've worked with off and on over the years.
- I spent the rest of the weekend listening to the CD off and on, while driving around.
- I've been a fan of hip hop off and on since the 80s and the genre seems to work in fits and spurts.
- We have visited and filmed them off and on for the past six months.
- Yet it was the beginning of a struggle with alcohol which for the next four years, off and on, got me into trouble.
- Your post made me think of an issue I've thought about off and on for some time now.
- You know, I've been talking to Judy off and on about this case for the last year.
- As someone who has tried to cast light on the mystery off and on for the last 40 years, I was becoming increasingly sceptical.
Synonyms periodically, at intervals, on and off, once in a while, every once in a while, every so often, now and again, now and then, every now and again, every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, on occasion, on occasions, on the odd occasion, at times, sometimes, sporadically, spasmodically, erratically, irregularly, intermittently, by fits and starts, in fits and starts, fitfully, discontinuously, piecemeal
OriginOld English, originally a variant of of (which combined the senses of ‘of’ and ‘off’). |