| 词组 | cut off |
| 释义 | cut off 1. cut off sth • cut sth off to separate part of something completely from the rest by cutting it with a knife, scissors etc: ▪ How much of your hair do you want me to cut off? ▪ One of his fingers was cut off in the accident. cut-off adj always before noun especially BrE cut-off trousers have been made much shorter than usual by cutting off the bottom of the legs: ▪ Cut-off jeans were very fashionable that year. 2. cut off sth/sb • cut sth/sb off to stop the supply of electricity, gas, water, money, or goods from getting to a place: ▪ If there is an earthquake, the electrical supply will be immediately cut off. ▪ The US threatened to cut off economic aid to South Africa. ▪ The gas company is threatening to cut us off if we don't pay the bill immediately. 3. be cut off if a place is cut off, it is very difficult to get to, for example because it is a long way from any other place: ▪ Some of the mountain villages are extremely cut off, and can only be reached on foot. ▪ Some villages and farms were cut off by snow for two weeks. 4. be cut off if the people living somewhere are cut off, they cannot communicate with other countries or people, for example because they are a long way from them, or because it is not allowed + from ▪ Rumania was a Communist dictatorship, cut off from the outside world. ▪ Prisoners were left alone for weeks, cut off from all contact. 5. be cut off by the tide/the floods/the fire etc to be trapped and unable to leave a place because you are surrounded by water or by fire: ▪ We'd better leave the beach by five o'clock or we'll be cut off by the tide. ▪ Whole villages were cut off by the floods. 6. feel cut off if you feel cut off, you feel lonely because you cannot meet and talk to other people + from ▪ I like working at home, but sometimes you feel cut off from other adults. ■ SIMILAR TO: feel isolated 7. cut sb off • cut off sth to stop communicating with someone or having a friendly relationship with them, often because you are angry with them about something: ▪ June came from a religious Protestant family, who cut her off when she married a Roman Catholic. cut off relations with sb/sth ▪ In 1904 Japan cut off diplomatic relations with Russia. cut yourself off (=deliberately avoid seeing people in order to be alone) ▪ After his wife died, he just stayed at home and cut himself off from his family and friends. 8. cut off sb • cut sb off to take away someone's right to receive your money or property when you die: ▪ He knew that his father would cut him off without a penny if he married Elizabeth. 9. cut off sb • cut sb off usually passive if you are cut off while you are speaking on the telephone, you are unable to finish your conversation because the telephone connection is suddenly broken.: ▪ My money ran out and I was cut off. get cut off ▪ We got cut off before he could give me his address. 10. cut sb off to prevent someone from finishing what they were saying, by interrupting them: ▪ "Mark!" his father cut him off. "I don't want you talking to your mother like that!" 11. cut sb off AmE to suddenly drive in front of a moving car in a dangerous way: ▪ When a careless driver cuts you off, get his license plate number and report it to the police. |
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