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单词 turn off
释义 turn off
I. transitive verb
1.
 a. : dismiss, discharge
  < at Jamaica he turned off the troublesome crew — W.P.Webb >
 b. : to dispose of : get rid of : sell; especially : to consign (fat stock) to market
2. : to turn aside : deflect, evade
 < turn off an importunate question with a laugh — H.G.Dwight >
3. : to turn out : produce, accomplish, execute
 < so versatile an artist … who can … turn off half a dozen Viennese songs — Irving Kolodin >
4. : to shut off or stop the flow of by or as if by turning a valve or stopcock or switch
 < turn off the water >
 < turn off the ignition of a motor >
 < turn off a gas burner >
5.
 a. : hang 1b(1)
  < when he was caught at last and turned off — Richard Hallet >
 b. Britain : to join in marriage
6.
 a. : to remove (material) by the process of turning
 b. : to shape or produce by turning
intransitive verb
1. : to deviate from a straight course or from a main road or route
 < turn off into a side road >
 < turned off when he ought to have gone straight on >
2.
 a. Britain : to go off : turn bad : spoil
 b. : to change to a specified state : become
  < the evening had turned off cool — Hamilton Basso >
II. intransitive verb
: to lose interest : withdraw
 < the kids turn off or drift into another world — Edwin Sorensen >
transitive verb
: to cause to turn off
 < dropouts who are turned off by … political phoniness — Hendrik Hertzberg >
also : to evoke a negative feeling in
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