stand down
英 [ˈstænd daʊn]
美 [ˈstænd daʊn]
（从要职上）退下，下台（让位给他人）
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.- 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。 - 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。
- Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office...
双语例句
- 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。 - Japan's remarkable prime minister is about to stand down. Will his revolution last?
卓越的日本首相即将引退，他的革命将会继续？ - 'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'continued the King.
“如果你再没有别的补充，你可以退下去了。”国王宣布说。 - If one of the machines has crashed, the arbiter will make that machine stand down.
如果其中一个机器崩溃，仲裁程序将让该机器暂时停止活动。 - Schools and religious organisations say the crackdown is pushing American volunteers with signing authority over accounts to stand down.
学校和宗教组织表示，此项打击政策已经使得很多签署了授权账户的美国志愿者辞了工作。 - He was ready to stand down so that his friend might be nominated for the post.
他准备退出竞选，以便使他的朋友被提名为这个职位的侯选人。 - I recommended that Schlesinger stand down the alert starting at midnight.
我建议施莱辛格暂时停止昨天午夜开始的戒备措施。 - When I gave you a direct order to stand down.
当我直接命令你停止的时候。 - 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。 - We stand down and let me think, is what we do.
暂时先让我想一下该怎么做。