work off

英 [wɜːk ɒf]

美 [wɜːrk ɔːf]

（通过消耗体力）宣泄（愤怒），释放（精力），排解（压力）; 用工作偿还（债务）

经济

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (通过消耗体力)宣泄(愤怒)，释放(精力)，排解(压力)
  If youwork offenergy, stress, or anger, you get rid of it by doing something that requires a lot of physical effort.
  1. She went for a brisk walk to work off her frustration...
     她快步走了一会儿，以排解心中的沮丧。
  2. If I've had a bad day I'll work it off by cooking.
     我要是哪天不顺心，就去做饭排解一下。
• PHRASAL VERB 用工作偿还(债务)
  If youwork offa debt, you repay it by working.
  1. The report proposes that students be allowed to work off their debt through community service...
     这份报告建议让学生通过参加社区服务来偿还债务。
  2. There were heavy debts. It would take half Edward's lifetime to work them off.
     爱德华负债累累，他要工作半辈子才能偿清。

英英释义

verb

• cause to go away through effort or work
  1. work off the extra pounds you have gained over the holidays
  2. we must work off the debt

双语例句

• To finance her education in Britain, her father borrowed from a wealthy cousin, quit his job as managing director of a state-owned telecoms company and moved to another province, with his wife, to work off the debt as an employee of his relative.
  为了资助她去英国留学，她父亲向一个富有的远房亲戚借了钱，放弃了国有电信公司董事总经理的职位，和妻子一起搬去另一个省份，为他的亲戚工作，以偿还债务。
• Let's get the work off hand today.
  咱们今天把这项工作干完。
• He tries to shuffle his work off onto others.
  他想把工作推给别人。
• If I've had a bad day I'll work it off by cooking.
  我要是哪天不顺心，就去做饭排解一下。
• I hope to work off most of the urgent letters by tomorrow.
  我希望明天处理完大部分紧急信件。
• At that rate, Tesla will need 22 years to work off its backlog.
  照这个速度，特斯拉公司需要22年才能完成这批订单。
• To work off their excess inventories, they slash production;
  为了消化过剩的库存，他们削减产量；
• We had to work off the impurities.
  我们得把杂质去掉。
• Then the client and the project team can collaborate to work off the variance together.
  然而客户及项目团队可以一起协作排除偏差。
• We ended the work off with a flourish.
  我们圆满地结束了工作。