offshoot

英 [ˈɒfʃuːt]

美 [ˈɔːfʃuːt]

n.  分支; (尤指)分支机构; 蘗枝; 分枝

复数：offshoots　

Collins.1 / BNC.15029 / COCA.17418

牛津词典

noun

• 分支；（尤指）分支机构
  a thing that develops from sth, especially a small organization that develops from a larger one
• 蘗枝；分枝
  a new stem that grows on a plant

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 分支；衍生物
  If one thing is anoffshootof another, it has developed from that other thing.
  1. Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy...
     心理学最初是自然哲学一个纯粹的学术分支。
  2. Firstdirect, Midland Bank's telephone banking offshoot, has cut its Visa card rate to APR 22.2%.
     米特兰银行的分支机构，“第一自助”电话银行，将维萨卡的年利率降至22.2%。

英英释义

noun

• a natural consequence of development
  Synonym:outgrowthbranchoffset

双语例句

• There are some beneath the Aegean Sea, and some beneath an offshoot of the Atlantic, and some beneath the Arctic, for the world had a different shape.
  有些在爱琴海底，有些在大西洋中，有些在北极之下，因为世界的面貌早已改变。
• An offshoot of the family settled down on the island in the eighteenth century.
  这个家族的一支旁系于十八世纪在那个岛上定居下来。
• One of the offshoot of the trunk fall from high under the weight of the snow
  树干上的一个分枝在雪的重压下折断从高处掉了下来
• Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy
  心理学最初是自然哲学一个纯粹的学术分支。
• As an offshoot of the same, IAF redrew its operational plans and objectives were redefined in tune with the changed modus-operandi and directions.
  作为这个计划的一个衍生物，印度空军重新规划了他的行动计划，而且目标被重新定义，以与改变的方法和方向同调。
• The offshoot is that the discipline of estimation is failing to keep pace with the growing complexity of projects, tools, and techniques.
  还有一个问题是随着项目、工具和技术的复杂度的增长，评估方法无法跟上它们的发展。
• Chronologically, RABS emerged more or less as an offshoot of efforts to implement isolator technology in the mid-1990s.
  按年份上看，在1990年中期，RABS或多或少出现了作为一个分支来努力应用隔离器技术。
• However, we want to spend a bit more time on star schema optimizer support, which is an offshoot of XPS.
  然而，我们需要花点时间在星型模式优化器支持上，这是XPS的一个分支。
• Vector is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions.
  向量是无用的幸存物或四元数的无价值的支流。
• A number of anti-gay Facebook users have expressed outrage at the new symbols, proposing a boycott on the page of One Million Moms-an anti-gay offshoot of the American Family Association.
  不少反同性恋的Facebook用户对该组新图标的出现表示愤慨，他们在美国家庭联盟的一个反同性恋分支组织OneMillionMoms（OMM）的主页上提出要抵制这一切。