off-kilter / ˈɔfˈkɪl tər, ˈɒf‐ /
💦中学词汇偏移偏离轨道偏离轨道的偏离主题
off-kilter 的定义
adj. 形容词 adjective- not exactly straight or balanced; askew; uneven: off-kilter paintings on every wall.
- not completely well; somewhat ill: still off-kilter two weeks after the flu.
- unusual or eccentric; unconventional: short stories with off-kilter endings.
更多off-kilter例句
- 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.
- He can't talk much, though; 'tain't good fur him; his lungs is out er kilter.
- 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.