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

• The Funiu Mountains are an offshoot of the Qinling Mountain range.
  伏牛山是秦岭的支脉。
• 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。
• When last seen in his own film Captain America: The First Avenger ( 2011), Captain America, also known as US Army officer Steve Rogers ( Chris Evans), had just dispatched the evil Nazi offshoot Hydra, only to then be frozen in ice.
  在2011年上映的前作《美国队长》中，外号美国队长的美国军官史蒂夫罗杰斯（克里斯埃文斯饰）阻止了邪恶的纳粹党九头蛇军团，但是本人也因此被冰封。
• In Tehran, the ideology of the president and his allies is increasingly being denounced as that of a sect – a heretical offshoot of Shia Islam dubbed by some the deviant current.
  在德黑兰，内贾德及其盟友的思想日益被某些反潮流人士指责为什叶派穆斯林异端分支的宗教邪说。
• There was fire in her and throughout her; she seemed the unpremeditated offshoot of a passionate moment.
  她浑身上下有一团火，向四下发散着，象是在激情时刻不期而孕的一个子嗣。
• The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
  象树枝或叶柄的分支与轴之间的上角。
• 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。
• 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。
• The first Christians were known as the Nazoreans ( not to be confused with Nazarenes), and the Ebionites were a direct offshoot from them.
  最初的基督徒称为Nazoreans（注意不要与Nazarenes混淆），Ebionites即是他们的支脉。
• 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。