年假

bear off───赢得；驶离

tear off───撕下；扯掉

wear off───磨损；逐渐消逝

bears off───赢得；驶离

clear off───摆脱；清除；走开

shear off───剪断；切掉

swear off───发誓戒除；放弃

Most parents can't take a year off work to show their kids the world.───大多数父母不可能放下一年的工作来带他们的孩子环游世界。

My point is that there may be no point in making New Year’s Resolutions, so why start a brand new year off by putting this kind of counterproductive pressure on yourself?───我的重点是，新年计划可能都是步子迈的太大，容易扯住蛋的事，所以又何必用这种压力的副产品来开始你的崭新一年呢？

Not everyone can — or should — take a year off.───不是每个人都能够——或者应该——离开一年的。

To get the new year off to the right start, we decided to ask various thinkers for one idea each to make the world a better place in 2011.───为了新年有新的开始，我们决定采访不同人，让每个人提个建议，看怎样能使2011年更美好。

I want a year off just to be fed. I've got to do what's best for me! Let some other part take over.───不想再服事这身体了，我要休息一年，只吃不做，让其他器官补上吧！

With a Facebook IPO at least a year off, many investors are keen for a slice of "the Facebook of China" .───鉴于Facebook至少还有一年才会启动IPO，许多投资者渴望从“中国版Facebook”的增长中分得一杯羹。

This time he'd come back on his schedule. If that meant taking a year off, so be it. And if it didn't work out, he had a whole life to live.───这次他要等完全康复再回来比赛，如果需要一年的时间来恢复脚踝，那就让它去吧，如果一直都恢复不了，他还是拥有整个人生。

If I were you, I'd do some hedging: ask to work part-time or take a year off.───如果我是你，我会作权宜之计：要求转成兼职工作，或休假一年。

If you took a year off from school, I would have to subsidize you, which would cost more than your tuition.───如果你们辍学一年，我就得给你们补助费，而补助花费比你们的学费更多。

War games last year off the country's south-western coast, with the US, Australia, Japan, and Singapore, triggered a formal protest from Beijing.

Each year off the coast of Toyama Bay, Japan, billions of these tiny squids will gather to spawn, creating a cool light show.

Questioner2 Is your decision to take a year off anything to do with the rumours about Jeff and his present leading lady?

I wanted to take a year off before college, but my mother put her foot down.

He knocked one year off a full 10-year term to take account of the strain on Christie of a second hearing.

I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled.

In 1977 I took a year off from farming and built a house farther up the hollow.

I'm flirting with the idea of taking a year off and travelling round the world.

Fittingly, she will spend her year off training her voice to sing blues and jazz.