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

• 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。
• The large organization has offshoots all over Europe.
  这一大型组织的分支机构遍布欧洲。
• 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。
• 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。
• Thanks to where they were, Europe and its North American offshoots had plants and animals that were easy to domesticate, a low burden of disease, and natural resources that supported industrialisation.
  由于它们（得天独厚）的地理位置，欧洲和它的美国分支拥有易于驯养和栽培的动植物、较轻的疾病负担以及有利于工业化的自然资源。
• We may be offshoots of the same species, but our cultures are just too different.
  我们也许是相同的人类分支，但是我们的习俗很不同。
• World of Warcraft has caught people's imagination and this has led to a variety of creative offshoots.
  恶搞引起了人们的想象，这也导致了各种创意的分支机构。
• Just two months after taking over zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, occupy Wall Street has mushroomed into a national movement, with offshoots in cities from Miami to Seattle.
  两个月前，“占领华尔街”运动（OccupyWallStreet）刚刚进驻位于曼哈顿下城的祖科蒂公园（ZuccottiPark）。
• 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。
• 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。