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head off

头部的

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to intercept and force to change directionto head off the stampede
    • : to prevent or forestall
    • : to depart or set outto head off to school

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Examples

  • The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.

  • 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 scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.

  • He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.

  • Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.

  • Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

  • She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

  • A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.