单词 | fire off |
释义 | fire off 1. phrasal verb If you fire off a shot, you send a bullet or other missile from a gun. A gunman fired off a volley of shots into the air. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Cecil now began to panic and fired off two distress rockets. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] ...an illustration of a guy firing a huge cannon off into the distance. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for fire If you fire off a letter, email, question, or remark, you send or say it very quickly, often as part of a series. He immediately fired off an angry letter to his ministry colleagues. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Officers fired off a string of demands to improve their pay and conditions. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] |
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