stand down

英 [ˈstænd daʊn]

美 [ˈstænd daʊn]

（从要职上）退下，下台（让位给他人）

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (从重要职位上)退下，下台(常为了让位给别人)
  If someonestands down, they resign from an important job or position, often in order to let someone else take their place.
  1. Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office...
     4天后，这位遭到鄙视的领导人终于下台了，离他就职只有 17 天。
  2. Profits plunged and he stood down as chairman last January.
     因利润骤降，他作为董事长于去年 1 月辞职了。

双语例句

• The person concerned would be shown the evidence in private and invited to stand down
  将会向有关人员私下出示该证据，并要求其暂时离开证人席。
• So I can stand down without intermission only.
  所以我只能不停地走下去。
• Lyndon Johnson squandered his gifts and his landslide mandate on Vietnam and was forced to stand down.
  林顿约翰逊把他的才能和占压倒多数的当选票，全都浪费在越南问题上了，最后被迫宣布退出总统竞。
• A delegate from Siberia proposed a resolution that he stand down as party chairman
  一名来自西伯利亚的代表提议他辞去党主席的职务。
• When I gave you a direct order to stand down.
  当我直接命令你停止的时候。
• If you want this job, I'll stand down.
  如果你想得到这工作，我愿意退让。
• I don't know I descend a station where, I don't know I what square tomorrow, only have so stand down.
  我不知道我的下一站在哪里，我不知道我的明天在何方，只有这样走下去。
• Stand down until I give you order.
  听我的命令再动手。
• It was his own choice to announce his intention to stand down before the next election.
  宣布打算在下次大选前离职，是他自己的选择。
• I've already instructed my guard to stand down.
  我已经叫我的保镖退下了。