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axe

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n.斧,(经费的)大削减

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axe


(also esp US ax) / Aks; Aks/ 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. 她只是出于好心--倒不是别有用心.
1. The crazed man came at me with a huge axe.
    这个精神病患者拿着一把大斧子向我袭来。

2. The fourth time he fell into the hands of a professional slave-catcher, who promptly had the man´s foot cut off with an axe against a tree stump.
    第四次逃跑时,他落到了一个职业奴隶捕手的手上。那人立即用斧头将他的一只脚放在树桩上砍了下来。

3. Apparently the main point of his nobility was that he had neither wife nor servants, used his own axe to chop his own wood, and washed his own cups and saucers.
    显然,他的高洁之处主要在于:他既没有妻子也没有仆人,自己动手用斧头砍柴,自己洗杯碟。

4. On one occasion, when Cavalli-Sforza was taking blood samples from children in a rural region of Africa, he was confronted by an angry farmer waving an axe.
    有一次在非洲乡下,正当卡瓦里-斯福尔扎要从儿童身上采血时,一个愤怒的农人手执斧头出现在他面前。

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