But some academics now think it is possible to make cheap, knock-off versions of these expensive originals.(但是一些学术界人士认为现在可以制造这些昂贵正版的廉价复制品。)
This was to knock off being pirates, for a while, and be Indians for a change.(这就是暂时停止当海盗,改行当印第安人。)
Things like iPods you just have to knock off the list, but birds in the trees around my kitchen have become my new iPod.(像iPod这类东西,我直接从清单上划去,不过,在我厨房四周林间的鸟儿成了我新的iPod。)
The downmarket German press has been asking why Germans should work until 69 to fund the retirement of Greek public-sector workers who (supposedly) knock off at 55.(针对主流大众的德国媒体已经被问到为什么德国的退休年龄要到69岁,而希腊公共事业的员工只到55岁。)
Let's knock off for a cup of tea.(歇会儿,喝杯茶。)
If the Mavs could knock off Miami just one more time, they'd win the title that had long eluded Nowitzki, a 13-year veteran.(钱德勒说如果这次小牛队能再次打败迈阿密,那么诺维茨基将赢得等待13年的总冠军。)
Can I knock off half an hour earlier?(我可以提前半小时下班吗?)
So if we were to 'reset' the world of wealth, we should just knock off about a third.(因此,如果要我们“重新设定”富人世界,我们应该直接减掉三分之一左右。)
Handaxes are not things you knock off; they are the result of experience, of careful planning and of skill, learned and refined over a long period.(石斧可不是你乱凿一通就可以整出来的东西,它们可是经验的成果,凝结着精心设计与高超技艺,这些都得通过一段相当长期的学习与提升。)