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put something off


phrasal verb with putverbuk /pʊt/ us /pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput
B1
to decide or arrange to delay an event or activity until a later time or date: 推迟,拖延
The meeting has been put off for a week.会议被推迟了1周。
[ + -ing verb ]I can't put off going to the dentist any longer.我不能再拖着不去看牙医了。
I've put off talking to him about this for far too long.
They decided to put the wedding off until his brother had returned from Brazil.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Delaying and wasting time
ado
busywork
buy timeidiom
carry something over
dally
gridlock
hold up
inefficiency
inefficiently
kept
kick
push
retard
retardation
set someone back (something)
shelve
sit
sit on something
spin
stall

put someone off


phrasal verb with putverbuk /pʊt/ us /pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput
to tell someone that you cannot see them or do something for them, or to stop someone from doing something, until a later time: 拒绝(某人);阻止(某人)
I really don't want to go out with Helen and Greg tonight - can't we put them off ?我今晚真的不想跟海伦和格雷格出去——我们就不能不见他们吗?
He keeps asking me out, and I keep putting him off.他不停地约我出去,我一直拒绝他。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preventing and impeding
anti-drug
anti-jamming
avoid
avoidable
avoidably
fireproof
flameproof
frustration
guard against something
hamper
hang
have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom
preclude
preclusion
preclusive
prejudice
prevent
scuttle
smother
suffocate

put someone off (something)


phrasal verb with putverbuk /pʊt/ us /pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput
to take someone's attention away from what they want to be doing or should be doing: (从…)分散(某人)的注意力,让(某人)打消(…)的念头
Once she's made up her mind to do something, nothing will put her off.她一旦下定决心做什么事情,没有什么能让她改变主意。
Could you be quiet please - I'm trying to concentrate and you're putting me off.请你安静些好吗——我想要集中注意力,而你打扰了我。
The sudden flash of the camera put the players off their game.照相机突然闪光,分散了选手们比赛的注意力。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Creating a distraction
create a diversion
distract
distract attention from something
distract someone from something
distracting
distraction
diversion
diversionary tactic
divert
divert attention from something
escape
mind
put
put someone off their strideidiom
rabbit hole
sidetrack
smoke and mirrors
stride
subject
take someone out of himself/herself

put someone off (something/someone)


phrasal verb with putverbuk /pʊt/ us /pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput
B2
to make someone dislike something or someone, or to discourage someone from doing something: 使反感;使泄气
The smell of hospitals always puts me off.我一直很讨厌医院里的气味。
You have to work long hours and that puts off a lot of people.不得不加班,这让很多人非常反感。
His attitude put me right off him.他的态度让我对他很反感。
[ + -ing verb ]Personally, I didn't enjoy the film, but don't let that put you off going.就我个人而言,我不喜欢这部电影,不过别让这扫了你的兴。
School dinners put me off cabbage for ever.
I was put off working with her by things her former colleagues had told me.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not liking
abhor
abide
abominate
anti-American
anti-British
civil
cup
cut
deplore
despise
detest
disdain
disdainful
go off
misanthropically
non-fan
not be someone's cup of teaidiom
not go much on somethingidiom
not have a civil word to say about someoneidiom
tire

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Discouraging and putting off

put someone off | American Dictionary


put someone off


phrasal verb with putverbus/pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput

(DISLIKE)


to discourage someone from doing something, or from liking someone or something:
I was put off by his appearance.
The experience put me off politics.

put off something/someone


phrasal verb with putverbus/pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput

(DELAY)


to delay or move an activity to a later time, or to stop or prevent someone from doing something:
The meeting has been put off for a week.
He keeps asking me out, and I keep putting him off.

put sth off | Business English


put sth off


phrasal verb with putverbuk /pʊt/usputting | put | put
to decide or arrange to delay an event or activity until a later time or date:
The meeting has been put off for a week.
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