| 释义 |
work something off1Discharge a debt by working: indentured servants working off their parents' debts...- The barrister continued: ‘It was the dealer's suggestion he work the debt off by helping in the care of the cannabis plants.’
- In return you will serve the hotel loyally and honestly until your debts are worked off by your hard labour.
- The events ahead are impossible to predict precisely, but historic debt levels are not worked off in a few years, especially when the debt is accelerating.
2Reduce or eliminate something by work or other activity: one of those gimmicks for working off aggression...- Turn idle time into exercise time, and it really works, works the weight off.
- Corman set neophytes to work off their baby fat on projects like Battle Beyond the Sun (Coppola) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (Bogdanovich).
- The cartoonish characters and the self-indulgent venting made you think the author was using his art to work off private resentments both old and new.
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