詞彙精選：put off的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
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使反感，使疏遠，使不信任
例句：
She's very clever but her manner does tend to put people off.
她人很聰明，但態度令人反感。
例句：
Don't be put off by how it looks — it tastes delicious.
被看外表就討厭它，這東西可香啦。
攪擾，使分神
例句：
Don't put me off when I'm teying to cencentrate.
別在我集中精神時候打擾我。
例句：
The sudden niose put off her game.
突然地嘈雜聲干擾了她的比賽。
【英】（車輛或司機）停車卸客，讓...下車
例句：
I asked the bus driver to put me off at the station.
我請公共汽車司機讓我在火車站下車。
使失去興趣（或熱情）
例句：
He was put off science by bad teaching.
因爲老師教的不好使他失去了對理科的興趣。
例句：
The accident put her off driving for life.
這次事故使她一輩子不願意再開車了.
推遲，延遲
例句：
The meeting will be put off to next week.
會議將推遲到下個星期。
例句：
Don' t put off until tomorrow what can be done today.
今日事，今日畢。
二、詞義辨析：
delay,postpone,defer,suspend,prolong,put off
這些動詞或短語動詞均有“推延，延期”之意。delay普通用詞，多指因外界原因推遲或耽誤，也可指有意推遲。postpone正式用詞，語氣較強，多指有安排的延期，常指明延期到一定的時間。 defer正式用詞，語氣強於postpone，多指故意拖延。suspend指暫時中斷以待某種條件的實現。prolong指把時間延長至超過正常或通常的限度。put off口語用詞，與postpone同義，但較通俗。
三、參考例句：
Never put off safety issues.
絕不拖延任何有關安全的事情。
The sudden niose put off her game.
突然地嘈雜聲干擾了她的比賽。
He put off his departure till Saturday.
她推遲到星期六啓程。
The match would be put off.
比賽將被推遲。
Why should it be put off till next month?
爲什麼非要捱到下個月不可？
The meeting was put off till the next day.
會議推遲到第二天舉行。
The picnic was put off until next Sunday.
野餐延到下週日去。
The appointment was put off because of his illness.
由於他生病而推遲了約會。
Once, she had been put off by his hauteur.
她曾經對他的傲慢很反感。
I had put off settling down to such domesticity,
我遲遲不肯安頓下來過這樣的家庭生活。
