"a branch of Congress"
"botany is a branch of biology"
"the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
"he broke off one of the branches"
"the arm of the record player"
"an arm of the sea"
"a branch of the sewer"
"these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
"The road forks"
The road to Oxford branches off here.
通往牛津的大道在这里分岔。
The car in front of us suddenly branched off to the left.
我们前面的那辆汽车突然转入左边的小路上去了。
branch off from sthThey branched off from the main road and turned down a country lane.
他们离开干道,转入乡间小路。
His talk branched off from the subject.
他的话离开了正题。
The company began by specializing in radios but has now decided to branch out into computers.
该公司开始时专营无线电器材,现在已决定扩展业务经营计算机了。
branch out on sthShe's leaving the company to branch out on her own.
她打算脱离这家公司,自己开公司。
The tree near the house branched over the roof.
房屋边那棵树的树枝伸展到屋顶上方去了。