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单词 off-piste
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Definition of off-piste in English:

off-piste

adjective & adverb
Skiing
  • 1Away from prepared ski runs.

    as adjective off-piste slopes
    as adverb heli-skiing is an expensive way of skiing off-piste
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This year's revelation is that controlling my center of gravity makes a major difference in how nimbly I can ski steeps, moguls and off-piste chunky snow.
    • But the question still remained, could I, a ‘good intermediate’ skier, cope with true off-piste conditions?
    • The off-piste revolution in Japan is now unstoppable, and its ski resorts are going to have to learn an entirely new culture to deal with it.
    • In the United States and Australia, skiing away from designated areas is prohibited, but in France it's normal to ski off-piste and on glaciers.
    • During the winter her main activities are off-piste skiing and ski touring.
    • Luckily my 16 year old son was scooped up by our friends, and his days were spent in wild, off-piste skiing.
    • Any advanced skiers can try their hand on some ungroomed black piste, both off-piste and on the mountain, on the Grande Monets slopes.
    • While we off-piste skiers are a mobile force, we don't always have the time or energy for long approach marches.
    • Even so, skiing will forever be the best way to travel off-piste - two-planks certainly have a future.
    • The lawyer was skiing off-piste in the resort of Verbier in the Alps when he fell some 300 metres after losing his footing and ended up in a snow gully.
    • The Outside team tested the latest off-piste equipment - snowboards that split in two, barely-there alpine bindings, shaped telemark skis designed to float on powder - to get you up and down with ease.
    • The huge adrenalin rush of surfing titanic waves such as this is often compared with other extreme sports such as skydiving and off-piste snowboarding and skiing.
    • These races require competitors to climb and descend steep, sometimes dodgy off-piste terrain using climbing skins and lightweight alpine-touring skis, boots, and bindings.
    • On-piste conditions are almost perfect, and in many places, off-piste routes are skiable for the first time this winter.
    • Powder hounds won't be disappointed either as there are excellent off-piste skiing and mogul runs, but it's wise to ask for a guide if you take the uncharted option.
    • You can break a leg on the prepared piste but to go off-piste is often considered foolhardy.
    • Initially I was just a holiday skier, but after we got our apartment here I took up off-piste skiing and ski-touring very seriously.
    • I'm also keen on off-piste skiing and snowboarding, and I think Norway is very good for that.
    • It is situated in the enormous Les Trois Vallees ski area which links what is conservatively estimated at 600 kilometres of groomed pistes and off-piste terrain.
    • There are over 140 groomed green and blue (advanced beginner) runs, snow parks, off-piste challenges and wide, flat nursery slopes.
    1. 1.1 So as to deviate from what is conventional, usual, or expected.
      as adverb on this occasion I went off-piste and booked in at The Griffin, a place none of us had ever visited before
      as adjective an off-piste show
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Last year one of the A-Level exam boards asked me to talk to a group of music teachers who wanted some deep background on contemporary music, to inform their understanding of the curriculum by going 'off-piste'.
      • Champagne and chilled fino sherry both perform this role with aplomb but sometimes it pays to go for something a little off-piste.
      • The high street is fine for seasonal sales but shopping off-piste will, more often than not, yield the best of the bargains all year round.
      • The decision to go off-piste and order two pints of wheat beer comes back to bite us when the bill arrives to reveal they're 8 euros each.
      • It was only when we ventured off-piste that the dishes were less convincing.
      • His conversation has a tendency to go wildly off-piste, slaloming between topics without warning, before abruptly ending with a firm, satisfied "yeah".
      • A walrus-moustached council official presides over the ceremony in Slovenian, continually drifting off-piste, gesturing and chuckling good-naturedly.
      • In the feverish TV debates the questions come from the audience, but that distinction is pretty minor since no audience member is invited to go off-piste with his or her inquiry.
      • The final panelist confessed that she'd gone way off-piste from the event instructions by nominating three works of fiction.
      • Things go decidedly off-piste at this point.
      • She had a running battle with her microphone and her concentration (skiing off-piste from her notes, and inviting the audience to steer her back on course).
      • Cocktail purists would say a classic drink can't be improved, but it can be fun to go off-piste.
      • Hearing the stories behind their music choices gives us a chance to find their vulnerabilities, and maybe even go a bit off-piste, if they say something unexpected.
      • What stays with me as I get older are the off-piste moments from teachers with a little freedom to be iconoclasts or enthusiasts.
      • Motorists head 'off-piste' to evade cameras designed to catch cars nipping through a bus-only junction in Colchester.
      • On day three, while debating how best to conjure a satisfying lunch solely from superfoods, I had a quick off-piste cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
      • I will be careful not to go off-piste, as it were, into a debate about electoral reform, because I was trying to put my remarks in the context of what happens in this place.
      • Like with many other intelligence agencies, it is difficult to tell how much the ISI operates "off-piste" and how effective is the control directed from above.
      • The royal once went off-piste and called a proposed extension to the National Gallery "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend."
      • Some of us were so disappointed we decided to carry on meeting off-piste, at Riverside Books, if they'll have us.
 
 

Definition of off-piste in US English:

off-piste

adjective & adverbˈɔf ˈˌpist
Skiing
  • 1Away from prepared ski runs.

    as adjective challenging expanses of off-piste skiing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Powder hounds won't be disappointed either as there are excellent off-piste skiing and mogul runs, but it's wise to ask for a guide if you take the uncharted option.
    • While we off-piste skiers are a mobile force, we don't always have the time or energy for long approach marches.
    • Even so, skiing will forever be the best way to travel off-piste - two-planks certainly have a future.
    • The off-piste revolution in Japan is now unstoppable, and its ski resorts are going to have to learn an entirely new culture to deal with it.
    • I'm also keen on off-piste skiing and snowboarding, and I think Norway is very good for that.
    • The huge adrenalin rush of surfing titanic waves such as this is often compared with other extreme sports such as skydiving and off-piste snowboarding and skiing.
    • There are over 140 groomed green and blue (advanced beginner) runs, snow parks, off-piste challenges and wide, flat nursery slopes.
    • During the winter her main activities are off-piste skiing and ski touring.
    • Initially I was just a holiday skier, but after we got our apartment here I took up off-piste skiing and ski-touring very seriously.
    • On-piste conditions are almost perfect, and in many places, off-piste routes are skiable for the first time this winter.
    • But the question still remained, could I, a ‘good intermediate’ skier, cope with true off-piste conditions?
    • In the United States and Australia, skiing away from designated areas is prohibited, but in France it's normal to ski off-piste and on glaciers.
    • Luckily my 16 year old son was scooped up by our friends, and his days were spent in wild, off-piste skiing.
    • This year's revelation is that controlling my center of gravity makes a major difference in how nimbly I can ski steeps, moguls and off-piste chunky snow.
    • The Outside team tested the latest off-piste equipment - snowboards that split in two, barely-there alpine bindings, shaped telemark skis designed to float on powder - to get you up and down with ease.
    • These races require competitors to climb and descend steep, sometimes dodgy off-piste terrain using climbing skins and lightweight alpine-touring skis, boots, and bindings.
    • Any advanced skiers can try their hand on some ungroomed black piste, both off-piste and on the mountain, on the Grande Monets slopes.
    • You can break a leg on the prepared piste but to go off-piste is often considered foolhardy.
    • The lawyer was skiing off-piste in the resort of Verbier in the Alps when he fell some 300 metres after losing his footing and ended up in a snow gully.
    • It is situated in the enormous Les Trois Vallees ski area which links what is conservatively estimated at 600 kilometres of groomed pistes and off-piste terrain.
    1. 1.1 So as to deviate from what is conventional, usual, or expected.
      as adverb on this occasion I went off-piste and booked in at The Griffin, a place none of us had ever visited before
      as adjective an off-piste show
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like with many other intelligence agencies, it is difficult to tell how much the ISI operates "off-piste" and how effective is the control directed from above.
      • The final panelist confessed that she'd gone way off-piste from the event instructions by nominating three works of fiction.
      • Things go decidedly off-piste at this point.
      • Motorists head 'off-piste' to evade cameras designed to catch cars nipping through a bus-only junction in Colchester.
      • On day three, while debating how best to conjure a satisfying lunch solely from superfoods, I had a quick off-piste cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
      • She had a running battle with her microphone and her concentration (skiing off-piste from her notes, and inviting the audience to steer her back on course).
      • His conversation has a tendency to go wildly off-piste, slaloming between topics without warning, before abruptly ending with a firm, satisfied "yeah".
      • Cocktail purists would say a classic drink can't be improved, but it can be fun to go off-piste.
      • It was only when we ventured off-piste that the dishes were less convincing.
      • The decision to go off-piste and order two pints of wheat beer comes back to bite us when the bill arrives to reveal they're 8 euros each.
      • I will be careful not to go off-piste, as it were, into a debate about electoral reform, because I was trying to put my remarks in the context of what happens in this place.
      • Some of us were so disappointed we decided to carry on meeting off-piste, at Riverside Books, if they'll have us.
      • The royal once went off-piste and called a proposed extension to the National Gallery "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend."
      • What stays with me as I get older are the off-piste moments from teachers with a little freedom to be iconoclasts or enthusiasts.
      • Champagne and chilled fino sherry both perform this role with aplomb but sometimes it pays to go for something a little off-piste.
      • The high street is fine for seasonal sales but shopping off-piste will, more often than not, yield the best of the bargains all year round.
      • In the feverish TV debates the questions come from the audience, but that distinction is pretty minor since no audience member is invited to go off-piste with his or her inquiry.
      • A walrus-moustached council official presides over the ceremony in Slovenian, continually drifting off-piste, gesturing and chuckling good-naturedly.
      • Last year one of the A-Level exam boards asked me to talk to a group of music teachers who wanted some deep background on contemporary music, to inform their understanding of the curriculum by going 'off-piste'.
      • Hearing the stories behind their music choices gives us a chance to find their vulnerabilities, and maybe even go a bit off-piste, if they say something unexpected.
 
 
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