offset
offset 英 [ˈɒfset] 美 [ˈɔfset]
n. 抵消，补偿 vt. 抵消；补偿
进行时:offsetting 过去式:offset 过去分词:offset 第三人称单数:offsets 名词复数:offsets
- When you offset something—say, the price of gas—you find a way to make up for it. My new car's ability to get fifty miles per gallon offset the rise in the price of gas. Offset functions as both a noun and a verb.
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- n. 抵消，补偿
- vt. 抵消；补偿
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1. They jump their prices to offset heavy expenditures.
他们提高物价来抵销庞大的开支.
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2. The gains offset the losses.
得失相当。
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3. Offset requirements also vary between these areas.
补偿要求在这些地区也各有不同.
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4. We offset the greater distance by the better road.
我们走远点,也要走较好的路.
- offset (n.) 1550s, "act of setting off" (on a journey, etc.), from off + set (adj.). Meaning "something 'set off' against something else, a counterbalance" is from 1769; the verb in this sense is from 1792. As a type of printing, in which the inked impression is first made on a rubber roller then transferred to paper, it is recorded from 1906.
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