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get off

下车,下来,下去,下来吧

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
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    • : to escape the consequences of an actionhe got off very lightly in the accident
    • : to be or cause to be acquitteda good lawyer got him off
    • : to depart or cause to departto get the children off to school
    • : to descend; dismountshe got off at the terminus
    • : to move or cause to move to a distanceget off the field
    • : to remove; take offget your coat off
    • : to go or send to sleep
    • : to send or to be sent
    • : slang to become high on or as on heroin or some other drug
    • : get off with British informal to establish an amorous or sexual relationship with
    • : tell someone where to get off informal to rebuke or criticize someone harshly

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Examples

  • In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?

  • 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.

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

  • The man called Shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.

  • Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service station.

  • It was in this room that Delancy's get-away car had changed paint jobs, and in about ten minutes.

  • Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.