| 词汇 | call somebody/something ↔ off |
| 释义 | call somebody/something ↔ offcall somebody/something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v a) CANCELto decide that a planned event will not take place 取消，撤销〔原定活动〕 SYN cancel The trip to Italy might be called off. 意大利之行可能要取消。 b) STOP DOING somethingto officially decide that something should be stopped after it has already started 取消，停止进行〔已经开始的事情〕 Rescuers had to call off the search because of worsening weather conditions. 因为天气越来越糟，营救人员只得停止搜救。 c) STOPto order an animal or person to stop attacking or threatening someone 把…叫开，喝住 Call your dog off. 喝住你的狗。 Examples from the Corpus call off• He said that he would not countenance such an attack, and ordered Clark to call it off.• I got up the next day and I called the fight off.• I promised Swire Sugden we'd call it off.• Jazz, as she had guessed, was disappointed at the decision to call the challenge off.• This short call sets off a chain reaction of events.• These are her dogs and she could call them off if she so desired.• The president himself claimed not to be involved and refused to call Carville off, leaving the clear implication of approval. → call somebody/something ↔ off at call1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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