shake off

柯林斯詞典

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. 擺脫 (疾病、壞習(xí)慣等)
Businessmen are frantically trying to shake off the bad habits learned under six decades of a protected economy. 商人們拼命想擺脫60年來在保護(hù)經(jīng)濟(jì)下所養(yǎng)成的這些壞習(xí)慣。
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 (跟蹤者、跟隨者)
Although I could pass him I could not shake him off. 盡琯我能超過他，卻不能甩掉他。