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off-grid

/awf-grid, of‐/US // ˈɔfˌgrɪd, ˈɒf‐ //

离网,离网型,离网的,离网式

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : not connected to or using one or more public utilities, as for electricity or water: Well over a billion people live in off-grid areas.Our farm is off grid and works on solar panels.
    • : not connected to or using one or more public communications networks, as for cellular service:They live off grid with no internet access.
    • : not having communication with the outside world; not participating in society:I sometimes fantasize about a solitary, off-grid life, far away from humanity.

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.

  • 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.

  • Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.

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

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

  • In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.

  • There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.

  • She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.