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
- 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。 - 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。 - He was forced to stand down as the team captain.
他被迫退下队长的职位。 - Schools and religious organisations say the crackdown is pushing American volunteers with signing authority over accounts to stand down.
学校和宗教组织表示，此项打击政策已经使得很多签署了授权账户的美国志愿者辞了工作。 - 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。 - He was ready to stand down so that his friend might be nominated for the post.
他准备退出竞选，以便使他的朋友被提名为这个职位的侯选人。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The present leaders have to decide whether to stand down and hand over to a younger generation
现任领导层必须决定是否应退居二线，把重任移交给更为年轻的一代。