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 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。
• 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。
• It was his own choice to announce his intention to stand down before the next election.
  宣布打算在下次大选前离职，是他自己的选择。
• If you want this job, I'll stand down.
  如果你想得到这工作，我愿意退让。
• When I gave you a direct order to stand down.
  当我直接命令你停止的时候。
• '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。
• Tell your men to stand down!
  叫你的人站着别动！
• 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？
• We stand down and let me think, is what we do.
  暂时先让我想一下该怎么做。