If you can't help him, you'd better put him off.

如果你不能帮忙，最好让人家打消念头。

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'If that didn't put him off, nothing would,' she laughs.

‘如果这样他也不放弃，那么没什么可以让他放弃了，’她笑到。

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But Ida put him off with "Let me have a look first."

艾达却说了声“让我先望一望。”来摆脱他。

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He sent right off for Scoresby, and put his arms around him and hugged him on the field in front of all the armies.

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Surely not even a scowling Craig Revel Horwood will be able to put him off his Rumba?

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The former Livingston chairman said his turbulent reign at Almondvale had not put him off Scottish football.

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In fact the coverage was so bad it probably put him off the press for the rest of his career.

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