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

• 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。
• 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。
• He had to lop off whole pages of the report.
  他必须砍除报告的全部页数。
• It's better to lop off long wisps than to try and save them.
  离开长的小把剪比试而且解救他们比较好。
• 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。
• A walker would pick up a hook and use it to lop off branches that were starting to impede passage. The hook would then be left at the other end of the path, for a walker coming in the opposite direction.
  行人便可以拿起钩子，用它砍掉那些开始蔓生到路上影响行走的树枝，用完后他会把钩子留在路的另一头给反向而来的行人使用。
• 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。
• His ponytail had been lopped off.
  他的马尾辫子被削掉了。
• 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。