1.斧a tool with a wooden handle and a heavy metal blade, used for chopping wood, cutting down trees, etc.
2.[sing](informal)(遭)解雇;倒闭;被停业if sb getsthe axe , they lose their job; if an institution or a project getsthe axe , it is closed or stopped, usually because of a lack of money
Up to 300 workers are facing the axe at a struggling Merseyside firm.默西赛德的一家艰苦挣扎的公司有多达 300 名工人面临被解雇。
Patients are delighted their local hospital has been saved from the axe.病人高兴的是当地医院得以免遭关闭。
She had no axe to grind and was only acting out of concern for their safety.她毫无私心,这样做只是出于对他们安全的担忧。
She had no axe to grind and was only acting out of concern for their safety.她毫无私心,这样做只是出于对他们安全的担忧。
1.(informal)~ sth精简(机构等);大量削减(经费等)to get rid of a service, system, etc. or to reduce the money spent on it by a large amount
Other less profitable services are to be axed later this year.其他盈利较少的服务预计今年稍晚将大量削减。
2.(informal)~ sb解雇;开除to remove sb from their job
Jones has been axed from the team.琼斯已被开除出队。
3.~ sb用斧把…砍死to kill sb with an axe
But it was not an axe they heard--only a branch which still hung on a withered tree, and was moved up and down by the wind.
但是他们听到的不是斧子--只是一条灌木一直绑在一颗干枯的树上,风把它吹的一动一动的。
The travellerhad to fight his way out through the tropical forest with an axe.
旅行者不得不用斧头在热带森林里砍出一条路来。
This seems to be a man with a bloody axe holding a woman's head up which has been severed from her body.
这里好像是写到一个男子用一把血淋淋的斧头砍下了一个妇人的头。
One shows a man whose bloody skull has been hacked into as if by an axe, to show that cigarettes increase the risk of stroke.
其中一张图上是一个男人血淋淋的头颅,像是被斧头劈开的,为的是说明香烟会增加中风的几率。
"I must just try that, " said the boy, and went to a tree, tore off the bark with his axe, and rubbed it with one end of the plaster.
“我得先试试,”小伙子说罢走到一棵大树前,用斧子砍掉一小块树皮,然后用那玩意儿的一头在破损处摩擦了一下。
He had wild hair, bulging eyes, and wielded an axe and a sword as he danced in a wreath of fire.
他有着狂野的长发,淡褐色的眼睛,手里拿着拿着一把斧头和一把剑在或权重跳舞。
An employee with an axe to grind may try to circumvent data protection measures by pasting a portion of a document into a chat window.
别有用心的员工可能会将文件的一部分粘贴到聊天窗口,以绕开数据保护措施。
He had some of it in his shed then. There were marks of an axe and of woodpeckers on the butt.
那时候,他家里还留着一点,在底部还有斧痕和啄木鸟啄过的痕迹。
At the end of the indenture, the laborer was given a rifle, an axe and a bag of corn, and went off to make his own farm in the wilderness.
契约期满后工人只得到一只枪,一把斧头和一袋粮食,然后离开,到荒原中去建立自己的农场。
Near by there stood an ancient forest which had never been profaned by the axe.
附近有一片老林,还从未遭受过斧头的蹂躏。
Your heart beat speeds as you recall the Warlord's flaming axe, behind the dark sockets of his helm you sense darker intentions.
当你一边回忆战神燃烧之斧时,一边心跳加速,在战神头盔黑暗的凹槽里,你可以感觉到黑暗的意图。
Once upon a time there comes along the woodman, and with his sharp axe he fells the oak.
不久,来了一个樵夫,他用利斧砍倒了橡树。
When his father found the dogs sniffing round Bump's body, he had no way of knowing which had done it, so he took his axe to all three.
父亲看到狗狗们围嗅着班普的尸体时,他也不知道该怎么办,于是他抓起斧头冲向三只狗。
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
有一人砍树的时候,斧头掉在水里,他就呼叫说:「哀哉!我主啊,这斧子是借的。」
The combination of my stone and his axe must have some mystical power as it allowed him to distort into a monstrous version of himself.
我的石头和他的柴刀的组合必须有一些魔力,它允许他变形入一个怪异版本的他自己。
When he finished the work , he thought the axe was his and put it in a room. Several days later Mr.
他把所有的事完成以后却忘记了斧头是布莱克先生的,把它放在了自己家里。
The moment Jack got down the beanstalk he cut the beanstalk with an axe, and the giant fell and was killed.
就在那时杰克从豆茎下来,并用斧头砍断了豆茎,巨人落下来摔死了。
When he heard what had happened to the axe, he jumped into the river and came out with a silver axe in his hand.
听说是斧子掉下水了,他就跳进河里,拿着把银斧子走出来。
Having learned the cause of his grief, Mercury plunged into the stream and brought up a golden axe, inquiring if he had lost it.
经了解了他悲痛的原因,Mercury陷入流,带来了一个黄金斧头,问他是否已经失去了它。
Then he took his plaster, rubbed the axe with it, and dealt a mighty blow, but as the iron had changed into silver, the edge bent.
他取出那个布条,在斧子上擦了擦,然后猛地一斧头砍了下去。由于铁已变成银子,所以斧刃卷了起来。
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