off

verb

1. kill intentionally and with premeditation

e.g. The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered

Synonym: murderslayhitdispatchbump offpolish offremove

adj

1. not performing or scheduled for duties

e.g. He's off every Tuesday

2. not in operation or operational

e.g. the oven is off
the lights are off

3. (of events) no longer planned or scheduled

e.g. the wedding is definitely off

Synonym: cancelled

4. below a satisfactory level

e.g. an off year for tennis
his performance was off

5. in an unpalatable state

e.g. sour milk

Synonym: sourturned

adv

1. no longer on or in contact or attached

e.g. clean off the dirt
he shaved off his mustache

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 from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)

e.g. 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

Synonym: awayforth

3. at a distance in space or time

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

Synonym: away

1. 从…移开；从…脱离
If something is taken off something else or moves off it, it is no longer touching that thing.

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

2. 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.

e.g. Don't try to get on or off a moving train!...
火车运行时请勿上下车！
e.g. As he stepped off the aeroplane, he was shot dead.
他一走下飞机便中枪身亡。

3. 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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

4. 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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

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

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

6. （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.

off的解释

7. （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.

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

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

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

e.g. Keep off the subject of politics...
勿谈政治。
e.g. Keep the conversation off linguistic matters.
避谈语言学问题。

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

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

11. 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.

off

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

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

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

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

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

e.g. ...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％。
e.g. ...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

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

e.g. Florida was a long way off...
佛罗里达离这儿很远。
e.g. ...animals that from a long way off look like flies...
远看像苍蝇的动物

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

e.g. An end to the crisis seems a long way off...
这场危机看来远未结束。
e.g. 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. 从…（获得）
If you get something off someone, you obtain it from them.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

18. （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.

e.g. Most of these people aren't very well off...
这些人大都不算太富裕。
e.g. Surely you can't be that badly off?...
你肯定没那么穷吧？

19. （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.

e.g. Don't eat that! It's mouldy. It's gone off!
别吃那个！它已经发霉变质了！

20. 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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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. （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.

e.g. 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. （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.

off的意思

e.g. ...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。
e.g. Some of the dialogue is slightly off.
部分对话有些不太得体。

23. 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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. We lived together, off and on, for two years.
我们断断续续在一起生活了两年。

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2. off的近义词

2. off.：offensive; 进攻的

3. off：optical-flow field; 光流场

4. off：office of facts and figures; 统计局