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walk-off

/wawk-awf, -of/US // ˈwɔkˌɔf, -ˌɒf //

走人,离场,散场,走步

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a person who escapes easily, especially by walking away from a place of detention; a walkaway: The guards rounded up the walk-offs from the prison farm.

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.

  • The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.

  • She set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.

  • I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.

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

  • He used to walk through the park, and note with pleasure the care that his father bestowed on the gigantic property.