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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Brazil's ports tend to be run as offshoots of the civil service rather than as private companies, with all the problems that entails.
  巴西的港口倾向于作为公共服务的一部分而不是私人公司来运营，所有的问题便由此而生。
• 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。
• Experiment on two patterns of cultivation including broadcast plantling and offshoots were conducted, the results showed that ① the innovations and protonema are repeated regenerating on the old stems and the gametophores formed on protonema;
  采用撒茎法和分株法2种栽培法培养藓类植物，实验结果表明：①新生枝和原丝体在老茎上反复产生，由原丝体产生配子托；
• 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。
• 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。