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单词 off-world
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Definition of off-world in English:

off-world

adverb
  • Away from earth or (in science fiction) from a place treated as the native world.

    wouldn't it be best to pursue these experiments off-world sometime in the future?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So you need a bunch of realistic fantasy creatures, and Stan Winston figured out long ago that it was easier to hire off-world than build all these bizarre creatures from scratch.
    • Three years had passed and I'd reached my goal for a ticket off-world.
    • None of the others made it off-world for another half century, and by that time we had already started to investigate the other planets in our system.
    • I'm not really different from any of the others, except I'm a fashion model, and I live off-world.
    • This is really an Earth-based project, so it wouldn't be right to go off-world for help.
    • We'll give them those three days to evacuate all settlements off-world.
    • If you were being menaced by a bug-eyed monster but lacked a phaser or psionic powers, your last hope might be a shuttle-craft to get you off-world.
adjective
  • Involving, located in, or coming from a place outside one's native world or planet.

    the plants will be grown in a special lunar module designed to promote plant growth in an off-world environment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After that, it's up to Zassa and her off-world contacts and Tanj's piloting skill to get us out of the Elysium system.
    • The final area of the Compound was the landing pad, where off-world shipments of materials arrived.
    • I'm off-world now cropping the juice to reach equilibrium with you.
    • The U.S. has always cooperated with the policy of limiting off-world contamination.
    • ‘You have all been progressing quite well,’ he told them, ‘and all of your mentors agree that you are ready for your first off-world assignment.’
    • There's an obvious ethical worry here, but if we put that aside for the moment, is this just an inevitable and, unfortunately, necessary next step in off-world exploration?
    • Establishing off-world settlements to get at least some of humanity's eggs out of the current single fragile physical and political basket is not exactly a job for a robot.
    • Had we grown tired of the planet in the wake of the oil scandal and yearn for off-world travel?
    • You adjust to everything, until the sky is filled with gigantic trolling zeppelins flashing ads for Coke, Atari, off-world colonial employment, etc.
    • What make the story unique are its setting and insight into off-world cultures.
    • In exchange for an alliance, the aliens offer Earth the secrets of the hyperdrive, which makes faster-than-light travel and off-world colonization possible.
    • Only off-world resources will do: lunar mining, processing and launch facilities, harvesting asteroids, and robotic manufacturing.
    • From the days of the earliest space-themed movies, directors have worked studiously to be as authentic as possible in the representation of spaceflight and off-world locations.
    • He transforms the pavilion into an off-world environment with benches that seem to mutate into treelike lamps, flashing lights, milky glass panels and portentous projections.
    • To secure an off-world presence, skilled individuals from a variety of professions will be needed to meet the challenges that arise.
noun
  • (in science fiction) a place away from the earth, or from a particular planet or world regarded as the native world.

    they centred the action on an offworld called Goblin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some had even come from off-world to witness it.
    • Because of our seclusion, we rarely get any visitors from the outside, and never from off-world.
    • Both of them seem to be visitors from off-world, from a unknown culture alien to Ventus.

Derivatives

  • off-worlder

  • noun
    • His presence on Earth was in violation of Galactic regulations - no off-worlders on a developing world.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There were very few off-worlders away from Sillon who know the importance of the Silloni's spiraled horns.
      • Tell me when you have the off-worlders in custody.
      • His strange clothes, pale skin and bewildered manner all marked him as an off-worlder, someone who simply did not belong on Demeter.
      • Even though Ambrooke was a planet-wide city, it was broken up into provinces, so that navigation was less confusing to off-worlders.
 
 

Definition of off-world in US English:

off-world

adverb
  • Away from earth or (in science fiction) from a place treated as the native world.

    wouldn't it be best to pursue these experiments off-world sometime in the future?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So you need a bunch of realistic fantasy creatures, and Stan Winston figured out long ago that it was easier to hire off-world than build all these bizarre creatures from scratch.
    • This is really an Earth-based project, so it wouldn't be right to go off-world for help.
    • Three years had passed and I'd reached my goal for a ticket off-world.
    • If you were being menaced by a bug-eyed monster but lacked a phaser or psionic powers, your last hope might be a shuttle-craft to get you off-world.
    • I'm not really different from any of the others, except I'm a fashion model, and I live off-world.
    • We'll give them those three days to evacuate all settlements off-world.
    • None of the others made it off-world for another half century, and by that time we had already started to investigate the other planets in our system.
adjective
  • Involving, located in, or coming from a place outside one's native world or planet.

    the plants will be grown in a special lunar module designed to promote plant growth in an off-world environment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He transforms the pavilion into an off-world environment with benches that seem to mutate into treelike lamps, flashing lights, milky glass panels and portentous projections.
    • There's an obvious ethical worry here, but if we put that aside for the moment, is this just an inevitable and, unfortunately, necessary next step in off-world exploration?
    • After that, it's up to Zassa and her off-world contacts and Tanj's piloting skill to get us out of the Elysium system.
    • Had we grown tired of the planet in the wake of the oil scandal and yearn for off-world travel?
    • What make the story unique are its setting and insight into off-world cultures.
    • Only off-world resources will do: lunar mining, processing and launch facilities, harvesting asteroids, and robotic manufacturing.
    • To secure an off-world presence, skilled individuals from a variety of professions will be needed to meet the challenges that arise.
    • The final area of the Compound was the landing pad, where off-world shipments of materials arrived.
    • In exchange for an alliance, the aliens offer Earth the secrets of the hyperdrive, which makes faster-than-light travel and off-world colonization possible.
    • From the days of the earliest space-themed movies, directors have worked studiously to be as authentic as possible in the representation of spaceflight and off-world locations.
    • The U.S. has always cooperated with the policy of limiting off-world contamination.
    • You adjust to everything, until the sky is filled with gigantic trolling zeppelins flashing ads for Coke, Atari, off-world colonial employment, etc.
    • Establishing off-world settlements to get at least some of humanity's eggs out of the current single fragile physical and political basket is not exactly a job for a robot.
    • ‘You have all been progressing quite well,’ he told them, ‘and all of your mentors agree that you are ready for your first off-world assignment.’
    • I'm off-world now cropping the juice to reach equilibrium with you.
noun
  • (in science fiction) a place away from the earth, or from a particular planet or world regarded as the native world.

    they centred the action on an offworld called Goblin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some had even come from off-world to witness it.
    • Both of them seem to be visitors from off-world, from a unknown culture alien to Ventus.
    • Because of our seclusion, we rarely get any visitors from the outside, and never from off-world.
 
 
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