dust off

英 [dʌst ɒf] 美 [dʌst ɔːf]

重新采用（陈旧的方法）; 把（旧物）备好待用; 重新振作

柯林斯词典

    in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 dust down

  1. PHRASAL VERB 重新采用（陈旧的方法）；把（旧物）备好待用
    If you say that someone dusts something off or dusts it down, you mean they are using an old idea or method, rather than trying something new.
    1. Critics were busy dusting down the same superlatives they had applied to their first three films...
      评论家们正忙着搬出他们用在前三部电影上的那些盛赞之词。
    2. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
      诸如拓宽苏伊士运河等长期束之高阁的计划正被重新采用。
  2. PHRASAL VERB 重新振作
    If you say that someone has dusted himself or herself off or dusted himself or herself down, you mean that they have managed to recover from a severe problem which has affected their life.
    1. She dusted herself down and left to build her own career...
      她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。
    2. When we are rejected, although we have been hurt we can pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start again.
      被拒绝的时候尽管我们很难过，但是我们会鼓起勇气,重新振作，从头再来。
  3. PHRASAL VERB 除去…的灰尘;打扫
    If someone dusts down something or dusts dirt off something, they remove dirt or dust from it.
    1. He stood and dusted down his suit and folded the letter away...
      他起身掸去了衣服上的灰尘并将信折起来收好。
    2. Use loose powder to set your makeup, dusting the excess off with a brush.
      用散粉来定妆,将多余的粉掸掉。
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双语例句

  1. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
    诸如拓宽苏伊士运河等长期束之高阁的计划正被重新采用。
  2. When we are rejected, although we have been hurt we can pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start again.
    被拒绝的时候尽管我们很难过，但是我们会鼓起勇气，重新振作，从头再来。
  3. Use loose powder to set your makeup, dusting the excess off with a brush.
    用散粉来定妆，将多余的粉掸掉。
  4. Billy leaned forward and brushed a speck of dust off his shoes.
    比利俯身擦掉了鞋子上的一丝灰尘。
  5. He blew the dust off the book.
    他吹掉书上的灰尘。
  6. Blow the dust off that book, please.
    请把那本书上的灰尘吹掉。
  7. Four years after he graduated from school, tom decided to dust off his algebra books.
    毕业4年后，汤姆决定重温搁置已久的代数书。
  8. Sitting on the bed, I wipe the dust off, and open the album.
    坐在床边，擦去灰尘，我翻开相册。
  9. So dust off that old diary, or open up a Word document, and try it.
    所以，重新拾起你的旧日记本，或新建一个word文档，试试这个方法。
  10. Dust off your resume and make sure it highlights your most recent skills, areas of responsibility and accomplishments.
    拿出你搁置已久的简历重新编辑，并保证在简历中突出了你最近掌握的新技能、你工作的范畴以及你的成就。
  11. I blew the dust off the old book.
    我把旧书上的灰尘吹掉了。
  12. I'll leave the school tomorrow. I will shake the dust off my feet.
    我明天离开学校，再也不到这个鬼地方来了。
  13. We had an umbrella to keep specks of dust off us.
    我们还打了把伞，用来挡灰。
  14. He shakes the dust off his rags to make a proud appearance at some grand social occasion.
    他抖掉破衣上的灰尘自豪地出现在盛大的社交场合；
  15. Eg: She flicked the dust off her collar.
    她轻轻弹掉了衣领上的灰尘。
  16. He flipped a speck of dust off.
    他把一点尘迹弹掉。
  17. He wiped the dust off and gently wrapped it in brown paper.
    他掸去灰尘，用棕色厚纸把东西小心包好。
  18. Clear the dust off that glass before you use it.
    在使用镜子之前，先把尘土擦掉。
  19. She picked up a book and blew the dust off it.
    她拾起一本书，吹掉上灰尘。
  20. She swept the dust off the table with a towel.
    她用毛巾拂除了桌上的灰尘。
  21. The mouthpiece of a wind instrument. Uncle blew the dust off his book.
    吹口管乐器的吹口处叔叔吹掉书上的灰尘。
  22. Since then, its members have been embroiled in a decades-long argument over whether to dust off their longboats.
    自从那时起，该组织的成员就被卷入了一场旷日持久、于是否应该允许捕鲸人重操旧业的争论。
  23. However, Mr Ballmer would do well to dust off that old memo.
    不过，鲍尔默最好还是拂去旧备忘录上的尘土。
  24. I'll have to dust off my French if we're going to move to Paris.
    如果我们要搬到巴黎去，我就要重新复习一下法语。
  25. Time to dust off the old jockstrap.
    到了一显身手的时间了。
  26. I won't write a new lecture; I'll just dust off the one I gave last year.
    我不会再写新的讲稿，只要重新采用去年的那份就可以了。
  27. At length the pilgrim could shake the dust off his feet at Heidelberg.
    那个朝圣者终于可以在海德堡停下来了。
  28. Wipe the dust off the table.
    把桌子上的灰尘擦去。
  29. An eye doctor will tell you that eyelashes can keep the dust off the eyes.
    眼科医生会告诉你，眼睫毛可以帮眼睛挡去灰尘。
  30. Hopefully we've helped dust off the magic ball a bit;
    我们已经帮你把这个魔球的灰尘抹去了；
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