柯林斯詞典offshoot /??f??u?t/ (offshoots) 1. N-COUNT If one thing is an offshoot of another, it has developed from that other thing. 衍生物; 分支 Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy. 心理學形成之初是作為自然哲學的一個純學術分支。 返回 offshoot劍橋詞典something that has developed from something larger that already existed 分支；分支機構 It's an offshoot of a much larger company based in Sydney. 這是總部設在悉尼的一家規(guī)模更大的公司的分支機構。 返回 offshoot