lop off

英 [lɒp ɒf]

美 [lɑːp ɔːf]

（通常指快而狠地）砍下，剪去，截掉; 从（预算等中）削减（金钱）; 从（计划等中）缩减（时间）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （通常指快而狠地）砍下，剪去，截掉
  If youlopsomethingoff, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke.
  1. Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
     有人剪掉了我们郁金香的花冠。
  2. ...men with axes, lopping off branches...
     手持斧头砍树枝的男人们
  3. His ponytail had been lopped off.
     他的马尾辫子被削掉了。
• PHRASAL VERB 从（预算等中）削减（金钱）；从（计划等中）缩减（时间）
  If youlopan amount of money or timeoffsomething such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount.
  1. The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time...
     法国航空公司的飞机在原来最短航行时间的基础上又缩减了4个多小时。
  2. More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme.
     将从监狱建设项目中砍掉逾一亿英镑。

英英释义

verb

• remove by or as if by cutting
  1. cut off the ear
  2. lop off the dead branch
  Synonym:cut offchop off

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