branch off

基本解释

Branch-off type, inseparable type and absent type are the variation types of EDCs.
分叉型、分离障碍型和缺如型是小指指总伸肌腱解剖变异的不同形式。
The present work considers the spiral case as branch-off pipe system that diverts part of the flow consecutively as it goes around the periphery of the runner.
本文将蜗壳看作沿转轮四周连续分流的分叉管系统，应用水力瞬变中的叉管理论推出一种能计及蜗壳各断面水锤效应，并使仿真计算更接近实际情况的新方法。
They like to go online and create their own stories that might branch off - especially now that it looks like J.K. Rowling might have finished, you know, for once and for all.
他们喜欢上网去创造他们自己的，可以展开的故事，特别是现在，看起来罗琳可能已经全部写完了。

STUDENT: -- want to be off the bottom branch.
学生：脱离最底层的分支。
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One driven middle-aged Englishwoman wants to "hike, hike, hike, " which she does, for 12 hours on one particular day, marching a knee-bruised, branch-lashed young guide off his feet.
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The Republicans, who can muster enough votes to block the governor's budget, refuse to consider tax increases unless they are accompanied by a root-and-branch overhaul of state finances and a mass sell-off of state assets.
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Apparently Bank of America had sent out a warning about Kunkin and one alert branch employee tipped off the cops when the Hungarian-passport-bearing customer walked in.
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A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.