| 词组 | go off |
| 释义 | go off 1. go off to leave the place where you are and go somewhere else, especially in order to do something: ▪ Gina got up quickly and went off on her bike. + to ▪ All the men had gone off to the war. + to do sth ▪ Dad went off to watch the baseball game. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go away 2. go off sb/sth BrE informal to stop liking someone or something that you used to like: ▪ Pete went off me after he met another girl on holiday. ▪ I used to enjoy tennis, but I've gone off it a bit now. 3. go off BrE if food or drink goes off, it is not good to eat or drink any more, for example because it has been kept too long, and it often smells bad: ▪ Do you think this meat has gone off? It doesn't smell too good. ▪ Milk usually goes off after a few days. 4. go off if a bomb goes off, it explodes: ▪ A bomb went off in East London last night, killing two and injuring eight others. ■ SIMILAR TO: explode 5. go off if a light, machine etc goes off, it stops working: ▪ There was a very strong wind, and suddenly all the lights went off. ▪ The central heating always goes off at 9 o'clock in the evening. ▪ The power goes off automatically if there's an earthquake. ■ OPPOSITE: come on 6. go off if a gun goes off, it fires: ▪ I heard a gun go off in the distance. ▪ Gillespie claimed that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑fire 7. go off if an alarm goes off, it makes a sudden loud noise, especially in order to warn people about something: ▪ Police were called to the house when the burglar alarm went off at two in the morning. ▪ I set my alarm clock to go off at six. 8. go off well/smoothly/as planned etc to happen successfully in the way that you had planned: ▪ Rosie was very nervous, but all the arrangements went off really smoothly. ▪ The campaign didn't go off as well as Blair had hoped. 9. go off to suddenly start talking or thinking about something completely different: ▪ Ian suddenly went off into a description of his awful childhood. ▪ Her mind had obviously gone off somewhere, and she sat staring out of the window. 10. go off • go off sth if a road, line etc goes off in a particular direction, it separates from another road or line and follows a different direction: ▪ About two miles further on, the track goes off to the right. ▪ Draw a horizontal line, and another going off it at an angle of about 30'. 11. go off BrE informal to become worse in standard or quality: ▪ It used to be a lovely hotel, but it's gone off a bit in recent years. ■ SIMILAR TO: deteriorate formal, go downhill 12. go off AmE informal to show your anger at someone or about something by saying what you really think using strong words: ▪ Randy just totally went off when I told him I didn't want to see him anymore. + on ▪ Melissa really went off on Rich as soon as he got home. |
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