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

• And I need you to order your troops to stand down.
  我还要你命令你的人保持克制。
• We stand down and let me think, is what we do.
  暂时先让我想一下该怎么做。
• Then take the mountaineering trolley can stand down to Saul.
  然后乘坐登山电车就可以下山到强罗站。
• Stand down until I give you order.
  听我的命令再动手。
• If you want this job, I'll stand down.
  如果你想得到这工作，我愿意退让。
• Lyndon Johnson squandered his gifts and his landslide mandate on Vietnam and was forced to stand down.
  林顿约翰逊把他的才能和占压倒多数的当选票，全都浪费在越南问题上了，最后被迫宣布退出总统竞。
• 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。
• Japan's remarkable prime minister is about to stand down. Will his revolution last?
  卓越的日本首相即将引退，他的革命将会继续？
• 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。
• 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。