单词音标：
【音标】 ['ɒ:fiŋ]
汉语翻译
n. 海面, 离岸距离相关词组:
in the offing
英语解释：
名词 offing:
- the near or foreseeable future
- the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area
动词 off:
- kill intentionally and with premeditation同义词：murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
例句：
- They paid me the princely sum of USD5000.他们慷慨地给我5000美元。
- The writer gets a 10% royalty on each copy sold of his book.作者从每本卖出的书中可得10%的版税。
- The woman said that she could not sleep without her husband's snore after 20 years of marriage.那位妇人说结婚20年来，听不到她丈夫的呼噜声，她就睡不着觉。
- The smell of cooking tells them there is a meal in the offing.他们闻到做菜的味儿，知道眼看要吃饭了。
- The mean of 7,9 and 14 is 10.7、9和14 的平均数是10。
- Look at those black clouds. I think there is rain in the offing.看那些乌云，我想天马上就要下雨了。
- I felt comfortable sailing on the smoothness of the sea.在平静的海面上航行我感到很舒服。
详细解释：
off.ing
n.（名词）Nautical The part of the sea visible from shore that is very distant or beyond anchoring ground.【航海】 可见海面：从海岸可看见的或离锚地很远的可以看到的海洋部分
<习惯用语>in the offing
In the near or immediate future; soon to come:不久：在很快或不久的将来；马上就来临的：例句：with exams finished and graduation in the offing.考试完了，毕业在即
Nearby; at hand.近的：附近的；在手的
