• n. 分支；支流；衍生物

off,離開，shoot,枝，嫩枝。比喻用法。

offshoot (n.)

1670s, in figurative sense, of family trees; 1801 in general sense of "a derivative;" 1814 in literal sense, in reference to plants. From off + shoot (n.).

1. Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy.

心理學最初是自然哲學一個純粹的學術分支。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Firstdirect, Midland Bank's telephone banking offshoot, has cut its Visa card rate to APR 22.2%.

米特蘭銀行的分支機構，“第一自助”電話銀行，將維薩卡的年利率降至22.2%。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Vector is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions.

向量是無用的幸存物或四元數的無價值的支流.

來自辭典例句

4. An offshoot of the family settled down on the island in the eighteenth century.

這個家族的一支旁系于十八世紀在那個島上定居下來.

來自辭典例句

5. The company was originally an offshoot of Bell Telephones.

這家公司曾經是貝爾的分支機構.

來自互聯網