| 单词 | lay off |
| 释义 | lay offlay off phrasal verbphr v a) lay somebody ↔ offLEAVE A JOB OR ORGANIZATION to stop employing someone because there is no work for them to do 〔因为没有活干而〕解雇〔雇员〕 → lay-off The company laid off 250 workers in December. 公司在12月份解雇了250名工人。 Millions of people have been laid off in the steel industry. 钢铁工业有数百万人遭解雇。 b) lay off (something) informalSTOP HAPPENING to stop using or doing something 停止，中止(某事) I think you’d better lay off alcohol for a while. 我认为你最好戒酒一段时间。 lay off doing something I had to lay off running for several months. 我只好数月内不再跑步了。 c) lay off (somebody) informal to stop annoying someone or hurting them 停止烦扰[伤害](某人) Just lay off, will you! 别来烦我，好不好！ I wish he’d lay off me! 我希望他不要再来烦我啦！ d) lay something ↔ off to pass the ball to someone in your team in a game such as football – used in sports reports 传球〔用于体育报道中〕 lay something off to somebody Murphy has the ball and then lays it off to Owen. 墨菲拿到球后传给了欧文。 Examples from the Corpus lay off• Three years later, it reported its worst quarterly loss ever and laid off 16 percent of its work force.• Look, I don't want to argue with you, so just lay off.• 3000 car workers have been be laid off at the factory in Cleveland.• An estimated 3 million workers have been laid off be-tween 1989 and 1995 as corporate profits have soared.• He and Dean had just been laid off during a seniority lapse because of a drastic reduction of crews.• We sought out people who had been laid off from large corporations and were forced to create new lives.• The station has laid off one-third of its staff.• I'm trying to lay off rich food for a while to lose some weight.• We must lay off the booze even during Holy Communion.• If he really wants to write the book, he'll need to lay off the drink until he does it.• He must lay off the kif.• Lay off the swearing, if you don't mind.• Hey, lay off Vinnie, will you? He hasn't done you any harm.• The sort of business which flourished in the eighties but suffered in the recession hit nineties, laying off workers. lay off (something)• Three years later, it reported its worst quarterly loss ever and laid off 16 percent of its work force.• An estimated 3 million workers have been laid off be-tween 1989 and 1995 as corporate profits have soared.• He and Dean had just been laid off during a seniority lapse because of a drastic reduction of crews.• We sought out people who had been laid off from large corporations and were forced to create new lives.• The station has laid off one-third of its staff.• We must lay off the booze even during Holy Communion.• He must lay off the kif.• The sort of business which flourished in the eighties but suffered in the recession hit nineties, laying off workers. lay off (somebody)• Three years later, it reported its worst quarterly loss ever and laid off 16 percent of its work force.• An estimated 3 million workers have been laid off be-tween 1989 and 1995 as corporate profits have soared.• He and Dean had just been laid off during a seniority lapse because of a drastic reduction of crews.• We sought out people who had been laid off from large corporations and were forced to create new lives.• The station has laid off one-third of its staff.• We must lay off the booze even during Holy Communion.• He must lay off the kif.• The sort of business which flourished in the eighties but suffered in the recession hit nineties, laying off workers. lay something off to somebody• Neville laid the ball off to Emile Heskey, who squared it into the six-yard box for Scholes to turn it in.• Quakers broke out of defence, Cork laying the ball off to give Gaughan a clear run on goal.• He drew the top card and laid it off to his right. → lay off at lay2(PHRASAL VERB) |
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