VERB
抵消；補償
If one thing is offset by another, the effect of the first thing is reduced by the second, so that any advantage or disadvantage is cancelled out.
例句
The increase in pay costs was more than offset by higher productivity...
提高的生產(chǎn)率抵消了增加的工資成本后仍有結(jié)余。
The move is designed to help offset the shortfall in world oil supplies caused by the UN embargo.
此舉旨在緩解聯(lián)合國禁運所造成的世界石油供應短缺的局面。