off from work

基本解释

Learn to switch off from work by leaving the office, switch off the BlackBerry, and do not take any calls at a certain time after work.
工作是我的动力，但不能作为借口，要学会离开办公室停止工作，关掉黑莓，下班后的某个特定的时间不接任何电话。
Consider allowing top performers to leave work early when necessary, have flexible working hours, earn time off from work, and have comp time for extra hours worked.
考虑一下，允许最好的员工在必要的时候早下班，工作时间灵活，可以在工作中休息，在利用其他时间工作。
Cut off from work by the snow (which, incidentally, had been forecast with almost pinpoint accuracy), I was out with the kids and being teased by the other dads.
大雪阻碍了工作(顺带一提，那场雪的预报准确无误)，我和孩子们出去，被其他父亲嘲笑。

But she decided to take three months off from work at an advertising company to visit her birthplace,India.
Whoever does work on it, that person is cut off from among his kin.
不管谁在这一天工作，这个人要和他的家族断绝关系。
耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选
Enzymes work best, enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions and our bodies operate by elaborate networks of chemical reactions, When we're off from that temperature then they don't work properly.
举酶这个例子再好不过,酶是一种具有催化作用的蛋白质,人体依靠精密复杂的化学反应网络来运转,如果我们体温与之相差较大,这些酶就不能正常工作
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And whether or not you can take a few months off from work—you can learn like that, too.
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