off让你脱离原来的状态

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off让你脱离原来的状态

Off的基本词义是“脱离、离开”

Get your feet off my couch. (脚与沙发分离)

Why are all of the lids off the paint cans? (盖子与颜料筒分离)

I finally take his picture off the wall. (照片与墙脱离)

James couldn’t get the ring off his finger. (戒指与手指脱离)

The other driver forced my car off the road. (车与轨道脱离)

以上例句中off都是用来表示具体含义的,但在更多时候,尤其是在与动词组合形成短语的时候,用来表达抽象含义。这种情况下,off所蕴含的意象可以表述为“一个事物脱离原来的位置或状态”。

She clears off a space next to her on the bed. (脱离原来杂乱的状态)

She stare off into the space, thinking. (目光脱离原来的位置,此处如果说不用off只说stare

into的话可以,但就表达不出远望的感觉)

How am I supposed to pull off a formal dinner with no warning? 招呼也不打一声,让我怎么能做出一顿像样的晚餐?(pull off的意思是努力实现,这个短语喻意很强,我们可以从它的字面意思上把它理解成“强行脱掉因为湿透了而粘在身上的衣服”,表示“艰难地做成某事”)

I’m dozing off during the day.

This news has taken a load off my mind. (心事不在了)

Monetary compensation? You’re trying to buy us off? 经济赔偿?你想花钱摆平?(让我们不再计较此事。)

It pissed me off. 这是真让我生气。(原来心平气和,现在生气了,原来的状态不在了)

I think my tranquilizer is wearing off.镇定剂失去作用。

It just kind of caught me off guard.

如果觉得off与动词连用会比较复杂,不容易掌握,其实如果把这些动词去掉,虽然不及原句生动,但基本的意思还是可以表达出来,把上面例句作如下变动:

Her sight is off into space, thinking.

I’m sleepy and my mind is off the work during the day.

Monetary compensation? You want us to be off the issue?

It made me off the good mood.

I think my tranquilizer is off the effect.

以上变动的目的是为了让大家体会到off这个词本身就已具备了完整的意义,是可以单独使用的。请看以下例句:

Joe was clearly relieved to be off the topic of his ex-girlfriend.

He says he has been off cocaine for five months.

We are off.

All the lights were off when I got home.

Carol is off for the whole week.

His wedding was still about six weeks off.

Is the date off?