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dust off

英 [dʌst ɒf]

美 [dʌst ɔːf]

重新采用(陈旧的方法); 把(旧物)备好待用; 重新振作

柯林斯词典

    in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 dust down

  • PHRASAL VERB 重新采用(陈旧的方法);把(旧物)备好待用
    If you say that someonedustssomethingoffordustsitdown, you mean they are using an old idea or method, rather than trying something new.
    1. Critics were busy dusting down the same superlatives they had applied to their first three films...
      评论家们正忙着搬出他们用在前三部电影上的那些盛赞之词。
    2. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
      诸如拓宽苏伊士运河等长期束之高阁的计划正被重新采用。
  • PHRASAL VERB 重新振作
    If you say that someone hasdusted himselforherself offordusted himselforherself down, you mean that they have managed to recover from a severe problem which has affected their life.
    1. She dusted herself down and left to build her own career...
      她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。
    2. When we are rejected, although we have been hurt we can pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start again.
      被拒绝的时候尽管我们很难过,但是我们会鼓起勇气,重新振作,从头再来。
  • PHRASAL VERB 除去…的灰尘;打扫
    If someonedusts downsomething ordustsdirtoffsomething, they remove dirt or dust from it.
    1. He stood and dusted down his suit and folded the letter away...
      他起身掸去了衣服上的灰尘并将信折起来收好。
    2. Use loose powder to set your makeup, dusting the excess off with a brush.
      用散粉来定妆,将多余的粉掸掉。

双语例句

  • When we are rejected, although we have been hurt we can pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start again.
    被拒绝的时候尽管我们很难过,但是我们会鼓起勇气,重新振作,从头再来。
  • Since then, its members have been embroiled in a decades-long argument over whether to dust off their longboats.
    自从那时起,该组织的成员就被卷入了一场旷日持久、于是否应该允许捕鲸人重操旧业的争论。
  • However, Mr Ballmer would do well to dust off that old memo.
    不过,鲍尔默最好还是拂去旧备忘录上的尘土。
  • Sitting on the bed, I wipe the dust off, and open the album.
    坐在床边,擦去灰尘,我翻开相册。
  • I blew the dust off the old book.
    我把旧书上的灰尘吹掉了。
  • Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
    诸如拓宽苏伊士运河等长期束之高阁的计划正被重新采用。
  • At length the pilgrim could shake the dust off his feet at Heidelberg.
    那个朝圣者终于可以在海德堡停下来了。
  • He flipped a speck of dust off.
    他把一点尘迹弹掉。
  • Wipe the dust off the table.
    把桌子上的灰尘擦去。
  • He wiped the dust off and gently wrapped it in brown paper.
    他掸去灰尘,用棕色厚纸把东西小心包好。