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单词 throw off
释义 throw off
transitive verb
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to free oneself from : get rid of
  < his only chance of throwing off the evil spell — Bill Beatty >
  < throw off his political masters and start a revolution — T.P.Whitney >
 b. : to cast off often in a hurried or vigorous manner : abandon, discard
  < threw off his coat and went to work >
  < threw off all sense of restraint >
 c. : to shake off : divert
  < wasn't to be thrown off by a false scent — Blackwood's >
2. : to make a start with in a hunt
 < throw off thy ready pack — William Somerville >
3. : to give off : emit, eject
 < mills throwing off … greenish clouds of smoke — American Guide Series: Connecticut >
4. : to produce in or as if in an offhand manner : execute with speed or facility
 < some little scrap of tune that the composer had thrown off — James Hilton >
 < can throw off a criticism of eighteenth-century architecture or of the fad for whole-meal bread — Times Literary Supplement >
5. : to remove (a man) from the backgammon board after all the men are home
6.
 a. : to cause to depart from an expected or desired course
  < hidden assumptions threw the Newtonian calculations off just the smallest bit — T.H.Littlefield >
  < violation of form had thrown the whole story off — Alec Rackowe >
 b. : to cause to make a mistake or form a wrong impression : mislead
  < it had been her thick accent that had thrown me off — Richard Wright >
intransitive verb
1. : to begin hunting
2. : to make derogatory comments : cast aspersions
 < was constantly throwing off on the neighbors >
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