单词 | see somebody/something ↔ off |
释义 | see somebody/something ↔ offsee somebody/something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v a) DEFENDBEAT/DEFEATto defeat someone or stop them from competing against you 击败〔对手〕;抵挡住 To see off the threat, the company will have to cut its prices still further. 为了应对这种威胁,公司将不得不进一步降价。 The team saw off their old rivals in last night’s championship game. 这支球队在昨晚的冠军争夺赛上击败了他们的老对手。 b) GOODBYEto go to an airport, train station etc to say goodbye to someone 〔到机场、火车站等〕给…送行 They’ve gone to the airport to see their son off. 他们到机场送儿子去了。 c) (also see somebody off something)FOLLOW to force someone to leave a place 赶走,逐出;使离开 Security guards saw him off the premises. 保安人员把他赶了出去。 Examples from the Corpus see off• Coronado, who thought him to be out of his mind, reluctantly saw the men off.• Several hundred people had waited at Pier 41 to see the celebrities off.• When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief.• I could see them scrambling off into the woods as we came up.• If he caught him up here again he'd see him off, scare him to death.• A class 31 is seen coming off the Mansfield line with a freight from Clipstone in 1965.• We had now spent three weeks at Aubagne and had seen detachments move off to Castelnaudary, and numerous people rejected. → see somebody/something ↔ off at see1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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