英文词源
- off-base (adv.)
- "unawares," 1936, American English, from off (adv.) + base (n.); a figurative extension from baseball sense of "not in the right position" (1898), from notion of a baserunner being picked off while taking a lead.
实用例句
- 1. I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.
- 我感觉吐吐苦水对我有好处。
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- 2. Their first car rolls off the production line on December 16.
- 他们的第一辆车于12月16日下线。
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- 3. French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint.
- 在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
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- 4. Lights reflected off dust-covered walls creating a ghostly luminescence.
- 灯光照在满是灰尘的墙上，反射回苍白的冷光。
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- 5. "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。
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