a)STOP DOING STH 停止做某事finish something ↔ off to complete the last part of something that you are doing 完成
It’ll take me a couple of hours to finish this job off.
我要几个小时才能完成这项工作。
b)finish something ↔ offFINISH/USE ALL OF something to use or eat all of something, so there is none left 用完某物;吃完某物
Who finished off the cake?
谁把蛋糕吃光了?
c)END STH BY DOING STH 以做某事结束某事to complete an event, performance, piece of work etc by doing one final thing 结束〔事件、演出、一项工作等〕
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We’ll finish off with a track from Adam’s new album.
我们将播放亚当新专辑中的一首歌作为结束。
finish something ↔ off
She finished off her speech by thanking her sponsors.
她在演讲的最后向赞助方表示了感谢。
finish off/finish something ↔ off by doing something
Finish off by cleaning the monitor and the keyboard.
最后要清洁显示器和键盘。
d)finish somebody/something ↔ offKILL to kill a person or animal when they are already weak or wounded 〔在其体弱或受伤时〕结束某人/某物的生命
e)TAKE AWAY SB’S STRENGTH 消耗某人的力气finish somebody ↔ offKILL to take away all of someone’s strength, energy etc 耗尽某人的精力,使某人精疲力竭,累垮某人
The walk up the hill really finished me off.
徒步登山真把我累垮了。
Examples from the Corpus
finish off• I usually partially cooksteaks in the microwave and then finish them off on the grill.• I came to work early this morning to finish off some urgent work for the boss.