offshoot

offshoot

英 ['ɒfʃuːt]
　　美 ['ɔfʃut]

n. 分支；支流；衍生物

中文詞源：

offshoot 樹枝分支，分支機構

off,離開，shoot,枝，嫩枝。比喻用法。

例句：

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。

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%。

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.

4. An offshoot of the family settled down on the island in the eighteenth century.
這個傢族的一支旁系於十八世紀在那個島上定居下來.

5. The company was originally an offshoot of Bell Telephones.
這傢公司曾經是貝爾的分支機構.