offloaded

英 [ˌɒfˈləʊdɪd]

美 [ˌɔːfˈloʊdɪd]

v.  把(担子等)转移(给别人); 减轻(负担); 卸(包袱)
offload的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 出手，转手，清理（不需要之物）
  If youoffloadsomething that you do not want, you get rid of it by giving it or selling it to someone else.
  1. Prices have been cut by developers anxious to offload unsold apartments...
     急于脱手未售出公寓的开发商降低了房价。
  2. Already in financial difficulties, Turner offloaded the painting on to the Getty Museum.
     特纳已经陷入财政困难，于是将这幅画卖给了盖蒂美术馆。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 unload


• VERB 卸（货）
  When goodsare offloaded, they are removed from a container or vehicle and put somewhere else.
  1. The supplies need to be offloaded and put on helicopters...
     这些补给要卸下来装上直升机。
  2. The cargo was due to be offloaded in Singapore three days later.
     货物定于3天后在新加坡卸载。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 unload

双语例句

• As financial markets continued to gyrate and investors offloaded Spanish stocks and bonds, the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development compared the growing debt crisis to the Ebola virus.
  在金融市场继续动荡、投资者抛售西班牙股票和债券之际，经济合作与发展组织（OECD）负责人将日益严重的债务危机比作埃博拉病毒（Ebola）。
• Last week bear's funds, besieged by disgruntled investors, offloaded securities with a face value of at least$ 4 billion to free up capital.
  上周在投资者的一片抱怨中，贝尔登斯的两支基金出售了票面价值超过40亿美元的债券，以减轻资本金压力。
• Fitch argues Chinese banks simply offloaded trillions of Renminbi in loans from their balance sheets in 2010 by artificially reducing their holdings of discounted bills and by repackaging loans into investment products for sale to investors.
  惠誉认为，2010年，中国各银行只是通过人为减少贴现票据的持有量，以及把贷款重新包装成投资产品卖给投资者，从资产负债表上抹掉了数万亿元人民币的贷款。
• Alcoa, meanwhile, has just uncerimoniously offloaded its$ 2bn position in Chinese counterpart Chalco – so much for the "long term strategic partnership" envisioned back in2001.
  与此同时，美国铝业刚刚悄然卖出了持有的20亿美元中国铝业股份，这就是双方在2001年缔结的“长期战略伙伴关系”远景。
• The cargo was due to be offloaded in Singapore three days later.
  货物定于3天后在新加坡卸载。
• The supplies need to be offloaded and put on helicopters
  这些补给要卸下来装上直升机。
• Colvin said the cocaine had apparently been offloaded from the catamaran to the yacht.
  科尔文说可卡因显然是从双体船卸载到游艇上。
• Already in financial difficulties, Turner offloaded the painting on to the Getty Museum.
  特纳已经陷入财政困难，于是将这幅画卖给了盖蒂美术馆。
• As market sap rises, assets long on the chopping-block such as the Alcan Packaging business could also be offloaded.
  随着市场活力上升，力拓还可以剥离那些早就打算出售的资产，例如加拿大铝业（alcan）的包装业务。
• So why is it that Facebook ( FB) was valued at$ 104 billion in its 2012 IPO, while the Washington Post ( WPO) was just offloaded in a fire sale for less than 1/ 400th of that amount?
  那么，为什么Facebook公司在2012年首次公开募股时获得了高达1040亿美元的估值，而刚刚被甩卖的《华盛顿邮报》（TheWashingtonPost）的价值还不到这个数额的四百分之一？