offset

释义

• n. 抵消，补偿；平版印刷；支管
• vt. 抵消；弥补；用平版印刷术印刷
• vi. 装支管

词源

offset (n.)

1550s, "act of setting off" (on a journey, etc.), from off + set (adj.). Meaning "something 'set off' against something else, a counterbalance" is from 1769; the verb in this sense is from 1792. As a type of printing, in which the inked impression is first made on a rubber roller then transferred to paper, it is recorded from 1906.

例句

• 1. The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation. 结婚人数的减少由于同居人数的增加而得以弥补。
• 2. Prices have risen in order to offset the increased cost of materials. 为补偿原料成本的增加而提高了价格。
• 3. The slowdown in domestic demand was offset by an increase in exports. 国内需求放缓和出口增长互相抵消了.
• 4. Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices. 他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消.
• 5. They jump their prices to offset heavy expenditures. 他们提高物价来抵销庞大的开支.