放弃席位; 解除戒备状态，恢复正常执勤
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。
1. But Hines did call on the Victorian state government to give racing stewards more power to stand down jockeys suspected of wrongdoing.
2. Brown was adamant he would not stand down to make way for a potentially more popular successor from within his party.
3. " I then don't need to stand and bend down all the time, " she said.
4. Cook will stand down as an executive director at Shell from June 1, according to a statement released yesterday.
5. Wang Xiaoyu said he could stand upside down on a table against a wall for more than 20 minutes and do a haircut.
6. stand down
6. He had spent most of Thursday sleeping, was too weak to stand and unable to hold down food.
7. The report said Israel would not agree to stand down until Hezbollah was incapable of resuming rocket fire Israel.
8. He indicated before the insurer's market debut last summer that he would stand down once it was established as a listed company.
9. stand down的意思
9. Northern Ireland's largest Protestant paramilitary group said yesterday it would stand down its active units from midnight and put its weaponry beyond use.
10. Most members of the ruling Labour Party expect him to stand down as party leader and prime minister in 2007 or 2008.