stand down

英 [ˈstænd daʊn]

美 [ˈstænd daʊn]

（从要职上）退下，下台（让位给他人）

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (从重要职位上)退下，下台(常为了让位给别人)
  If someonestands down, they resign from an important job or position, often in order to let someone else take their place.
  1. Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office...
     4天后，这位遭到鄙视的领导人终于下台了，离他就职只有 17 天。
  2. Profits plunged and he stood down as chairman last January.
     因利润骤降，他作为董事长于去年 1 月辞职了。

双语例句

• We stand down and let me think, is what we do.
  暂时先让我想一下该怎么做。
• And I need you to order your troops to stand down.
  我还要你命令你的人保持克制。
• If one of the machines has crashed, the arbiter will make that machine stand down.
  如果其中一个机器崩溃，仲裁程序将让该机器暂时停止活动。
• Schools and religious organisations say the crackdown is pushing American volunteers with signing authority over accounts to stand down.
  学校和宗教组织表示，此项打击政策已经使得很多签署了授权账户的美国志愿者辞了工作。
• We need an outside arbiter to ask one of the machines to stand down.
  我们需要一个外部仲裁程序来要求其中一个节点暂时停止活动。
• He was forced to stand down as the team captain.
  他被迫退下队长的职位。
• Stand down until I give you order.
  听我的命令再动手。
• Sg-1is on stand down until your next mission comes up.
  sg-1正在返航，你的下一个任务来了。
• If you want this job, I'll stand down.
  如果你想得到这工作，我愿意退让。
• Yesterday, the country saw its central bank governor stand down early.
  昨日有消息称，该国央行行长将提前离职。