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

双语例句

• His ponytail had been lopped off.
  他的马尾辫子被削掉了。
• Let's lop off those repeated and empty words.
  让我们把那些重复的、空洞的话都删掉吧。
• His article is too cumbersome. let's lop off those repeated and empty words.
  他的文章太冗长了。让我们把那些重复的、空洞的话都删掉吧。
• Lop off branches from a tree.
  剪去树上的树枝。
• Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
  有人剪掉了我们郁金香的花冠。
• There he would force him to lie down, and in order to fit him to the bed he would lop off the lower parts of his limbs.
  他强迫客人躺下，必且为了和床的长度相符，他就砍下他的四肢的下半部分。
• 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。
• But real-estate construction accounts for another third of total investment spending, and its collapse should lop off at least an additional percentage point from economic growth.
  而房地产的建设又占总投资支出的三分之一，它的崩溃至少会给经济增长减掉一个百分点。
• The easy way, the business way, was to lop off those who were least efficient or had the least seniority.
  最容易的办法，也是最实际的办法，就是去掉那些工作效率最低的或者年资最浅的人。
• You'll all be out of here after I lop off a few heads.
  等我砍掉几个脑袋，你们就可以出去了。