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call off

叫停,注销,销声匿迹,销假

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to cancel or abandonthe game was called off because of rain
    • : to order to desist or summon awaythe man called off his dog
    • : to stop or give the order to stop

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

  • This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

  • It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.

  • "I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.