branch off

岔路口岔道岔路岔道口

branch off 的定义

  1. 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

v. 动词 verb

extend

更多branch off例句

  1. Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
  2. A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
  3. The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
  4. The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
  5. Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
  6. A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
  7. I had those words in my thoughts four years ago, when I cut him down from the branch of the Patriarch.
  8. Each seems satisfied with the way his own branch is getting on: Winter is the quicker worker.
  9. 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.
  10. The senior branch of the family being thus extinct the whole of the entailed estate had devolved on me.