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

• Felix, though an offshoot from a far more recent point in the devolution of theology than his father, was less self-sacrificing and disinterested.
  在神学的发展变化中，虽然费利克斯和他的父亲相比是更新的一支的产物，但是却缺少了父亲的牺牲精神，多了自私自利的特点。
• A more useful offshoot of absolute purchasing power parity is relative purchasing power parity.
  该理论有个更实用的概念，那就是相对购买力平价。
• Huabao International, a Chinese tobacco flavouring supplier, suspended trading of its shares after an offshoot of Anonymous, the hacker group, used a research report to attack the business and its billionaire chairwoman.
  黑客组织匿名（Anonymous）旗下的一个部门利用一份研究报告，对中国烟用香精供应商华宝国际（HuabaoInternational）及其亿万富翁女主席发起攻击，随后华宝国际的股票停牌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The overseas edition of the People's Daily is a smaller offshoot of the domestic edition.
  人民日报的海外版是国内版的一个小分支。