off-base

['ɔfbes]
  • adj. 军事基地外的
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英语词源

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.

权威例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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