branch off 的定义
- Diverge, subdivide, as in It's the house on the left, just after the road branches off, or English and Dutch branched off from an older parent language, West Germanic. This term alludes to a tree's growth pattern, in which branches grow in separate directions from the main trunk. [Second half of 1800s] Also see branch out.
branch off 近义词
extend
更多branch off例句
- Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
- A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
- The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
- The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
- Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
- A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
- I had those words in my thoughts four years ago, when I cut him down from the branch of the Patriarch.
- Each seems satisfied with the way his own branch is getting on: Winter is the quicker worker.
- A girl was moved to pity by a picture of a lamb caught in a thicket, and tried to lift the branch that lay across the animal.
- The senior branch of the family being thus extinct the whole of the entailed estate had devolved on me.