avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
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The flight was put off because of ground fog. 由于地面有雾,这次班机延迟起飞。
I hope the rain will hold off for a few more hours. 我希望雨延迟几小时后再下。
He put them off with one excuse and another. 他一再借故推脱。
But many others are put off by Google's cocksure assertion of its own holiness, as if it merited unquestioning trust. 但是也有很多公司被谷歌自己至尊的可信的宣言推脱掉了,好像他们应该得到这种毫无疑问的信任。
I'm not going to be put off with that excuse. 我不会被那个借口敷衍过去的。
On various pretexts they all moved off. 他们以各种各样的借口纷纷离开了。