shake off ( shaking, shook, shaken )

• 1. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you shake off something that you do not want such as an illness or a bad habit, you manage to recover from it or get rid of it. 摆脱 (疾病、坏习惯等)

  例：

  Businessmen are frantically trying to shake off the bad habits learned under six decades of a protected economy.

  商人们拼命想摆脱60年来在保护经济下所养成的这些坏习惯。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB If you shake off someone who is following you, you manage to get away from them, for example, by running faster than them. 甩掉 (跟踪者、跟随者)

  例：

  Although I could pass him I could not shake him off.

  尽管我能超过他，却不能甩掉他。