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off-duty

/awf-doo-tee, -dyoo-, of-/US // ˈɔfˈdu ti, -ˈdyu-, ˈɒf- //

不当班,休班,不当班的,下班

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not engaged in the performance of one's usual work: an off-duty police officer.
    • : of, relating to, or during a period when a person is not at work.

Examples

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Our duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.

  • 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.

  • And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.

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

  • Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."

  • The dead bodies of the two men were guarded until next day, for justice to do its duty.

  • That alone is being sent to your Majesty as a report, in order to inform you of everything, as is my duty.

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