Axe
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n. 斧子;<俚>解雇;
vt. 用斧砍;削除，解雇;大量削减（经费），精简（机构）;
📝 例句
Have you had broken(ly) the ice axe?
你有破冰斧吗？
He equips with arms with the axe being ready for any eventuality.
他用斧子武装起来以防万一。
He gathered all his strength and swung the axe.
他用尽全力抡起斧头.
The carpenter tapered the end of the fence post with an axe.
木匠用斧头把篱笆桩子的底部砍出了一个尖。?
He looks like he's got an axe to grind. Better have a talk with him.
他看来是牢骚满腹, 你最好找他谈谈。
🌱 联想助记
【串】ape(类人猿)拿着axe(斧子)喝着ale(淡啤酒)
【记】a-似“小姑娘”,x-罗马数字“10”,e-拼音“鹅”:小姑娘用10只鹅换一把斧子
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
axe
(also esp US ax) n
1 tool with a handle and a heavy metal blade used for chopping wood, cutting down trees, etc 斧; 斧子
(fig 比喻) apply the axe to (ie drastically reduce) local government spending 大刀阔斧削减地方政府的开支. =>illus 见插图.
2 (idm 习语) get the `axe (infml 口) be removed or dismissed, esp from a job 被解雇; 被开除
A lot of people in shipbuilding will get the axe. 造船业的很多人将被解雇. ,have an `axe to grind have private reasons for being involved in sth 有私心; 有个人打算; 另有企图
She's only doing it out of kindness she's got no particular axe to grind. 她只是出於好心--倒不是别有用心. axe, (also esp US ax), v [Tn]
1 remove (sb/sth) or dismiss (sb) 削除（某人[某事物]）; 解雇; 开除（某人）
He/His job has been axed. 他[他的工作]已经裁减掉了.
2 greatly reduce (costs, services, etc) 大刀阔斧地削减（成本）, 精简（机构等）
School grants are to be axed next year. 学校补助金明年将大大削减.
🔁 扩展释义
n. 斧, 斧头vt. 削减(人员、经费、计划、机构等)
📖 同为「CET-6」词汇
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This job is hard work.
这活儿太累人了。
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
书籍如朋友，应该少而精。
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.
搜寻美洲狮的工作是从一座小村庄开始的。那里的一位妇女在采摘黑莓时的看见“一只大猫”，离她仅5码远，