英语词源
- turn-off (n.)
- "something that dampens one's spirits" recorded by 1971 (said to have been in use since 1968), from verbal phrase turn off "stop the flow of" (1850), from turn (v.) + off (adv.). Turn-off (n.) as "place where one road diverges from another" is from 1881.
权威例句
- 1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。
- 2. He said they should turn their fire on the Conservative Party instead.
- 他说他们应该掉转枪口，向保守党开火。
- 3. Today I might hesitate to turn in a burglar.
- 现在让我把入室窃贼送交警方，我可能会有所顾虑。
- 4. Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to.
- 有时事情并不像我们认为的那样发展。
- 5. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
- 河流转向东流时河道大幅度变宽。