float off

基本解释

Icebergs are created when chunks of pack ice break free and float off into open sea.
当大块积冰断裂、漂浮至远海的时候，冰山就形成了。
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After drinking tea with cancer, cancer cells rounded polygonal shrinkage, reduction of pseudopod shrinkage, loss of adhesion and migration capabilities, even loss of float off;
癌症患者长期饮用普洱茶后，癌细胞多边形收缩变圆，伪足缩量减少，失去贴附及游走能力，甚至脱落浮起丢失；

PricewaterhouseCoopers may now float off its consulting arm.
ECONOMIST: Strength in numbers
Indeed, there could be no greater testimony to its health than the unsentimental ability to let one-time national champions float quietly off into another's embrace.
ECONOMIST: British manufacturing
Ward talks of steering wheels that break off and "float" during wrecks in poorly made cars — moving around the cabin in the driver's area.
NPR: AP IMPACT: Cars Made In Brazil Are Deadly

to offer (shares in a subsidiary company) for sale on the stock market separately from the main company