职场中，当上级在会议等场合中使用短语 “take something offline” 时，是在告诉某人 “不要再谈论一件事情，会后私下再说”。这个短语经常与 “let’s” 搭配，用来表示命令或请求，即 “Let’s take it offline.（让我们私下里谈这件事情）”。

• I understand that this is a really important issue for you, Sandra, but it’s not the focus of this meeting. Let’s take it offline and talk about it afterwards.
  我知道这对你来说是一个非常重要的问题，珊德拉，但这并不是会议的重点。我们私底下再接着谈。
• Derek started talking inappropriately about members of the other team, but thankfully our manager told him to take it offline.
  德里克开始谈论另一支团队的成员，说了些不合适的话，但幸好我们的经理让他别再说下去了。
• After our manager told me to take it offline, I thought she would talk to me later about it – but she clearly just wanted me to stop talking.
  我们的经理让我私下再谈，我本以为她稍后会和我讨论这件事情，但显然她当时只是想让我住口。