stand down

退出(比赛或竞选)； (从某职位上)退下； 退军

Ok, my questions are over, stand down, Sir.(好了，我的问题问完了，先生退席吧。)

Navy diver, stand down.(海军潜水员，退下。)

The wind is strong enough for the boat to stand down to the island.(风力很强劲，足以使船顺着风向驶向那个岛。)

Japan's remarkable prime minister is about to stand down.(日本惹眼的首相即将交权。)

The secretary is proposing to stand down in favor of a younger man.(这位大臣打算辞职，让位给一个比较年轻的人。)

He recently hinted that he will stand down in 2013.(贝氏最近暗示说他会在2013年退位。)

'If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,' continued the King.(“如果你再没有别的补充，你可以退下去了。”国王宣布说。)

The brain and body stand down, and everything goes back to normal.(头脑和身体解除戒备，一切恢复正常。)

The logic of the Shapiro committee suggests that it would be better for him to stand down now, rather than in 2014.(夏皮罗委员会的逻辑是，他最好现在退位，不要等到2014年。)

We need an outside arbiter to ask one of the machines to stand down.(我们需要一个外部仲裁程序来要求其中一个节点暂时停止活动。)

1. (从重要职位上)退下，下台(常为了让位给别人)
If someone stands down, they resign from an important job or position, often in order to let someone else take their place.

e.g. Four days later, the despised leader finally stood down, just 17 days after taking office...
4天后，这位遭到鄙视的领导人终于下台了，离他就职只有 17 天。
e.g. Profits plunged and he stood down as chairman last January.
因利润骤降，他作为董事长于去年 1 月辞职了。