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

• 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。
• Meanwhile, government public relation as an offshoot also has tighter relations with public policy.
  同时，作为分支体系的政府公关则与公共政策联系更为密切。
• An unexpected offshoot of my research
  从我研究工作中所得的意想不到的产物
• 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。
• The additional security needs are an offshoot of application-specific cloud characteristics, therefore this can be implemented without impacting the rest of the functionality and code.
  额外的安全性需求是与应用程序相关的云特征的一种分支，因此它可以在不影响其余功能和代码的前提下实现。
• The Funiu Mountains are an offshoot of the Qinling Mountain range.
  伏牛山是秦岭的支脉。
• The Gulf is a shal-low offshoot of the Indian ocean.
  波斯湾是从印度洋延伸出来的一个浅水湾。
• Sharding, an offshoot of database partitioning, isn't a native database technique& it happens at the level of the application.
  切分是数据库分区的一个分支，但是它不是本地数据库技术&切分发生在应用程序级别。
• 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。
• An unknown offshoot of Fatah, calling itself the "Awda Brigades" claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for the violent Hamas takeover of Gaza a year ago.
  法塔赫一个不太知名的自称为“阿瓦达旅”的分支组织声称对这次袭击负责，并且表示这是对哈马斯使用暴力手段在一年前占领加沙地带进行的报复。