| 词组 | take off |
| 释义 | take off 1. take off sth • take sth off to remove something that you are wearing: ▪ She took her clothes off and got into bed. ▪ "Hot chocolate?" he asked Dooley, when they'd taken off their coats. ▪ I forgot to take off my make-up last night. ■ SIMILAR TO: remove ■ OPPOSITE: put on 2. take off if a plane or bird takes off, it leaves the ground and rises into the air: ▪ The plane took off into the night sky. ▪ What time does your plane take off? ▪ A dog jumped into the lake, and the ducks took off and flew over the park. ► compare ↑lift off ■ OPPOSITE: land take-off n C,U when a plane rises into the air at the beginning of a flight: ▪ We have to check in at least one hour before take-off. 3. take sth off to arrange to spend some time away from your normal work in order to have a holiday or do something else: ▪ Why don't you take some time off - you need a break. take a day/week etc off ▪ I take two weeks off every summer and go canoeing, far away from phones or any other links with the office. take Monday, Tuesday etc off ▪ I'm taking Thursday off to go Christmas shopping. 4. take off to suddenly start being successful: ▪ Handler was a young actor whose career was just about to take off. ▪ Internet shopping will really take off when people become convinced that it's safe to type in their credit card numbers. take-off n U when a product, business, industry etc starts being successful: ▪ An agricultural revolution took place in the eighteenth century, resulting in an economic take-off. 5. take off informal to leave somewhere suddenly, especially without telling anyone: ▪ What's wrong with Ian? He just took off without saying goodbye. ▪ She was such a wild young girl - I was afraid that one day she might just take off and disappear. 6. take sb off to move someone away to a place, or make them go there with you + to ▪ Two people had been dug out of the snow by rescuers, and taken off to hospital. ▪ Myong-Hwan had been home less than ten days when the police came to the house and took him off to jail. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cart off informal 7. take sb off BrE informal to copy the way that someone speaks or behaves in order to make people laugh: ▪ Peter's really good at taking people off. He does Tony Blair brilliantly - it's so funny. ■ SIMILAR TO: mimic, impersonate take-off n C when someone copies the way that someone else speaks or behaves in order to make people laugh: ▪ Donna did a brilliant take-off of the principal. 8. take yourself off informal, especially BrE to go somewhere: ▪ I took myself off for a walk, hoping to forget about my problems. +to ▪ Please, Norman, take yourself off to a tailor and get yourself a decent suit. ▪ His wife had complained of a headache and had taken herself off to bed. 9. take sb off sth to stop someone from doing a particular type of work, usually because they are doing it badly: ▪ Detective Bachinski was taken off the case, and is suspected of taking bribes. ▪ The psychiatrist thinks I'm insane, and they're going to take me off combat duty and send me home. 10. take off sth • take sth off • take sth off sth to take a particular amount or number from a total: ▪ When I complained, they agreed to take $10 off the price. ▪ Will the examiner take points off for spelling mistakes? ■ SIMILAR TO: deduct ■ OPPOSITE: add on 11. take sb off sth to stop giving someone a particular type of medicine: ▪ Dr Brown's taken me off Prozac - it wasn't doing me any good. ▪ "You act like my mom before the doctor took her off those pills," said Stu. "They made her like a robot." ■ OPPOSITE: put on 12. take sth off BrE if a bus, train, or plane service is taken off, it is stopped: ▪ The 6.15 train to London has been taken off. ▪ People who live in rural areas are complaining that many of their bus services have been taken off. ■ SIMILAR TO: axe 13. take sth off if a play or a television or radio show is taken off, it is no longer performed or broadcast: ▪ The play failed to attract a big enough audience, and was taken off after only a few nights. take sth off the air (=stop broadcasting a television or radio show) ▪ TV comedy show "Nothing Sacred" was taken off the air, after thousands of people wrote in to complain that it was offensive to Christians. |
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