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fight off

打跑了,打退堂鼓,打掉,打走了

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to repulse; repel
    • : to struggle to avoid or repressto fight off a cold

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Examples

  • Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

  • 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.

  • Iraq may have been an irregular fight, but it had major moments.

  • The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.

  • It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.

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

  • The fight lasted two days, and only two men out of the five hundred escaped with their lives.

  • But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.

  • It was found afterwards that the rebels meant to fight the two British forces in detail before they could effect a junction.