dust off

英 [dʌst ɒf]

美 [dʌst ɔːf]

重新采用（陈旧的方法）; 把（旧物）备好待用; 重新振作

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 dust down


• PHRASAL VERB 重新采用（陈旧的方法）；把（旧物）备好待用
  If you say that someonedustssomethingoffordustsitdown, you mean they are using an old idea or method, rather than trying something new.
  1. Critics were busy dusting down the same superlatives they had applied to their first three films...
     评论家们正忙着搬出他们用在前三部电影上的那些盛赞之词。
  2. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
     诸如拓宽苏伊士运河等长期束之高阁的计划正被重新采用。
• PHRASAL VERB 重新振作
  If you say that someone hasdusted himselforherself offordusted himselforherself down, you mean that they have managed to recover from a severe problem which has affected their life.
  1. She dusted herself down and left to build her own career...
     她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。
  2. When we are rejected, although we have been hurt we can pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start again.
     被拒绝的时候尽管我们很难过，但是我们会鼓起勇气,重新振作，从头再来。
• PHRASAL VERB 除去…的灰尘;打扫
  If someonedusts downsomething ordustsdirtoffsomething, they remove dirt or dust from it.
  1. He stood and dusted down his suit and folded the letter away...
     他起身掸去了衣服上的灰尘并将信折起来收好。
  2. Use loose powder to set your makeup, dusting the excess off with a brush.
     用散粉来定妆,将多余的粉掸掉。

双语例句

• She picked up a book and blew the dust off it.
  她拾起一本书，吹掉上灰尘。
• So dust off that old diary, or open up a Word document, and try it.
  所以，重新拾起你的旧日记本，或新建一个word文档，试试这个方法。
• I won't write a new lecture; I'll just dust off the one I gave last year.
  我不会再写新的讲稿，只要重新采用去年的那份就可以了。
• Time to dust off the old jockstrap.
  到了一显身手的时间了。
• Four years after he graduated from school, tom decided to dust off his algebra books.
  毕业4年后，汤姆决定重温搁置已久的代数书。
• I'll have to dust off my French if we're going to move to Paris.
  如果我们要搬到巴黎去，我就要重新复习一下法语。
• Hopefully we've helped dust off the magic ball a bit;
  我们已经帮你把这个魔球的灰尘抹去了；
• At length the pilgrim could shake the dust off his feet at Heidelberg.
  那个朝圣者终于可以在海德堡停下来了。
• We had an umbrella to keep specks of dust off us.
  我们还打了把伞，用来挡灰。
• Eg: She flicked the dust off her collar.
  她轻轻弹掉了衣领上的灰尘。