stand down
英 [ˈstænd daʊn]
美 [ˈstænd daʊn]
（从要职上）退下，下台（让位给他人）
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.- 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。 - 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。
- Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office...
双语例句
- 'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'continued the King.
“如果你再没有别的补充，你可以退下去了。”国王宣布说。 - It is time to put aside the stocks and stand down the firing squads.
是时候收起枷锁，让行刑队退下了。 - When I gave you a direct order to stand down.
当我直接命令你停止的时候。 - I recommended that Schlesinger stand down the alert starting at midnight.
我建议施莱辛格暂时停止昨天午夜开始的戒备措施。 - So I can stand down without intermission only.
所以我只能不停地走下去。 - I don't know I descend a station where, I don't know I what square tomorrow, only have so stand down.
我不知道我的下一站在哪里，我不知道我的明天在何方，只有这样走下去。 - A delegate from Siberia proposed a resolution that he stand down as party chairman
一名来自西伯利亚的代表提议他辞去党主席的职务。 - 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。 - And I need you to order your troops to stand down.
我还要你命令你的人保持克制。 - He was forced to stand down as the team captain.
他被迫退下队长的职位。