offshoot
英['?f?u?t]
美['?f?ut]
- n. 分支；支流；衍生物
詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?offshoots;
中文詞源
offshoot 樹枝分支，分支機構(gòu)
off,離開，shoot,枝，嫩枝。比喻用法。
英文詞源
- offshoot (n.)
- 1670s, in figurative sense, of family trees; 1801 in general sense of "a derivative;" 1814 in literal sense, in reference to plants. From off + shoot (n.).
雙語例句
- 1. Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy.
- 心理學最初是自然哲學一個純粹的學術(shù)分支。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Firstdirect, Midland Bank's telephone banking offshoot, has cut its Visa card rate to APR 22.2%.
- 米特蘭銀行的分支機構(gòu)，“第一自助”電話銀行，將維薩卡的年利率降至22.2%。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Vector is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions.
- 向量是無用的幸存物或四元數(shù)的無價值的支流.
來自辭典例句
- 4. An offshoot of the family settled down on the island in the eighteenth century.
- 這個家族的一支旁系于十八世紀在那個島上定居下來.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The company was originally an offshoot of Bell Telephones.
- 這家公司曾經(jīng)是貝爾的分支機構(gòu).
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)