offshoots

英 [ˈɒfʃuːts]

美 [ˈɔfˌʃuts]

n.  分支; (尤指)分支机构; 蘗枝; 分枝
offshoot的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 分支；衍生物
  If one thing is anoffshootof another, it has developed from that other thing.
  1. Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy...
     心理学最初是自然哲学一个纯粹的学术分支。
  2. Firstdirect, Midland Bank's telephone banking offshoot, has cut its Visa card rate to APR 22.2%.
     米特兰银行的分支机构，“第一自助”电话银行，将维萨卡的年利率降至22.2%。

双语例句

• Experiment on two patterns of cultivation including broadcast plantling and offshoots were conducted, the results showed that ① the innovations and protonema are repeated regenerating on the old stems and the gametophores formed on protonema;
  采用撒茎法和分株法2种栽培法培养藓类植物，实验结果表明：①新生枝和原丝体在老茎上反复产生，由原丝体产生配子托；
• Washington supporting Israel and the Kremlin sponsoring enemy regimes and their terrorist offshoots.
  美国支持的以色列以及克林姆林宫支持的反美武装。
• The latter are obvious next-generation offshoots of traditional company and industry Web sites.
  后者明显成为了传统公司和行业网站的下一代新兴产物。
• From gardnerian came Alexandrian tradition and a host of other offshoots that today number in the hundreds.
  从加德列而来的亚历山大传统和今天总计数百的其它分支的主干。
• World of Warcraft has caught people's imagination and this has led to a variety of creative offshoots.
  恶搞引起了人们的想象，这也导致了各种创意的分支机构。
• Dozens of other Haskell compilers and interpreters exist, including offshoots of Hugs and the GHC, but they are the main two.
  还有许多其他Haskell编译器和解释器，包括Hugs和GHC的分支，但是它们是主要的两个。
• Just two months after taking over zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, occupy Wall Street has mushroomed into a national movement, with offshoots in cities from Miami to Seattle.
  两个月前，“占领华尔街”运动（OccupyWallStreet）刚刚进驻位于曼哈顿下城的祖科蒂公园（ZuccottiPark）。
• If Osama bin Laden is the mastermind of a terrorist network, he has spawned vigorous offshoots.
  如果奥斯马？本？拉登是恐怖网络的策划者，他已经在各地建立了许多活动猖撅的分支机构。
• Many groups of settlers came in order to have their own particular form of religion, and a number of offshoots of European churches are represented in America.
  许多移民团体是为了保持他们自己的特殊宗教信仰而来的，这样就使欧洲许多教派的分支在美国都有了代表。
• Thanks to where they were, Europe and its North American offshoots had plants and animals that were easy to domesticate, a low burden of disease, and natural resources that supported industrialisation.
  由于它们（得天独厚）的地理位置，欧洲和它的美国分支拥有易于驯养和栽培的动植物、较轻的疾病负担以及有利于工业化的自然资源。