shake off one's chains

DISCLAIMER: my life is absolutely nothing like this; however, I can't shake the feeling that if I can just hold off my biological clock, one day it could be.

特别声明：我的生活绝对不是这个样子，但我有种预感，只要我能坚持不生，也许有一天我的生活真会变成那样。

He admitted that he would shake off some meat when there was too much for one student.

他也承认要是盛了太多的肉就会抖掉一些。

"I recall being put off by how many of my colleagues (or should I say Comrades) seemed to be falling over one another to have a chance to shake hands with the wily old despot," he wrote in an email.

“我记得看到不少同事(或许我应该说同志)为了有机会与这个狡猾的老暴君握手而差点绊倒，挺反感的，”他在一封电邮中写道。