offshoots

英 [ˈɒfʃuːts]

美 [ˈɔfˌʃuts]

n.  分支; (尤指)分支机构; 蘗枝; 分枝
offshoot的复数

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%。

双语例句

• If Osama bin Laden is the mastermind of a terrorist network, he has spawned vigorous offshoots.
  如果奥斯马？本？拉登是恐怖网络的策划者，他已经在各地建立了许多活动猖撅的分支机构。
• There are a myriad new distressed investing funds, some started as offshoots of the biggest private equity groups and hedge funds, all trying to make a fortune in distressed debt at a time when it is difficult to make significant returns on much else.
  现在涌现出了大量的问题资产投资基金，其中有些是大型私人股本集团和对冲基金设立的分支机构。在这个很难从其它领域获得可观收益的时期，它们都试图借不良债务生财。
• The large organization has offshoots all over Europe.
  这一大型组织的分支机构遍布欧洲。
• Washington supporting Israel and the Kremlin sponsoring enemy regimes and their terrorist offshoots.
  美国支持的以色列以及克林姆林宫支持的反美武装。
• He reached his shears up to cut the offshoots of a tree.
  他高举大剪刀去剪树上的枝杈。
• Dozens of other Haskell compilers and interpreters exist, including offshoots of Hugs and the GHC, but they are the main two.
  还有许多其他Haskell编译器和解释器，包括Hugs和GHC的分支，但是它们是主要的两个。
• The latter are obvious next-generation offshoots of traditional company and industry Web sites.
  后者明显成为了传统公司和行业网站的下一代新兴产物。
• In the 1980s, as hip-hop became more popular, new offshoots developed.
  80年代，随着嘻哈风更加盛行，新的流派发展起来。
• I hope that painful reallocation of assets will not just favour giant, established corporations, but will also see many such monoliths broken up, and innovative offshoots starting amid the rubble.
  我希望，令人痛苦的资产再分配不只是会有利于成熟的大公司，还会促使许多这样的寡头破产，具有创新力的衍生事物也会在泡沫中产生。
• Many groups of settlers came in order to have their own particular form of religion, and a number of offshoots of European churches are represented in America.
  许多移民团体是为了保持他们自己的特殊宗教信仰而来的，这样就使欧洲许多教派的分支在美国都有了代表。