| 单词 | to train off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto train off to train off 1. intransitive. To get out of condition, lose form; to lose strength or skill by overtraining or overwork. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > become unfit to train off1776 society > leisure > sport > training > train [verb (intransitive)] > get into specific condition by training to train on1767 to train off1810 cross-train1984 1776 E. Topham Lett. from Edinb. 98 When they are young they dance extremely well; but afterwards (to speak in the language of the turf) they train off. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 230 A hard round,..that convinced the judges of boxing that Blake had trained off. 1859 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 20 330 The second [prize] bull, ‘Marmaduke’, has trained off; still there is a good expression about him. 1901 S. Dixon From Gladiateur to Persimmon 81 After three races at Goodwood, all of which he won, he not unnaturally became stale and trained off. 2008 B. F. Cayzer Murder by Med. xi. 93 Good Harvest had trained off after winning the Metropolitan Handicap and was just beginning to come back. 2. intransitive (a) To go away, withdraw; (b) to veer off. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > retire, withdraw, or retreat withdraw1297 recoilc1330 give place1382 arrear1399 to draw backa1400 resortc1425 adrawc1450 recedec1450 retraya1470 returna1470 rebut1481 wyke1481 umbedrawc1485 retreata1500 retract1535 retire1542 to give back1548 regress1552 to fall back?1567 peak1576 flinch1578 to fall offa1586 to draw off1602 to give ground1607 retrograde1613 to train off1796 to beat a retreat1861 to back off1938 the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > incline in a direction > obliquely wryc1374 slant1698 angle1835 to train off1891 1796 R. Heber Let. 8 Dec. in Heber Lett. (1950) iii. 100 Mr. Pulestone..after having made love to Miss Owen..for some time and the wedding day being fix'd, has left her in the lurch and trained off. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 48 James gradually trained off from the party. 1833 T. Hook Widow ii, in Love & Pride I. 30 They [sc. suitors] had trained off, upon finding..that Harriet's boasted fortune was visionary. 1870 W. E. Gladstone Let. 21 Nov. in Gladstone-Granville Corr. 164 All factious R.C.'s will train off from us as we shall have no more justice to do them. 1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) To train off, to go off obliquely: said of the flight of a shot. 1988 T. Cunliffe Topsail & Battleaxe (1998) 37 Chris had trained off to the eastward..looking like a condemned man. 3. transitive. To reduce or shed by exercise and diet. ΚΠ 1874 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 68 459 The first must train off all his fat to keep his flesh from puffing up under the brutal pounding to which it is exposed. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed viii. 165 You're disgracefully out of condition,..pure tallow born of over-feeding. Train it off, Dickie. 1958 Baseball Digest July 78/1 It was after his first big league season that an anonymous Detroit writer reported that Fothergill had ‘trained off his total weight’. 2003 M. K. Campbell & S. O. Farrell Biochem. (ed. 4) xvi. 540/2 It is easier and healthier to train off the weight than to diet off the weight. < as lemmas |
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