单词 | cut |
例句 | cut verb 1.•the knife slipped and cut his finger:gash, slash, lacerate, sever, slit, pierce, penetrate, wound, injure | scratch, graze, nick, incise, score | lance. 2.•cut the pepper into small pieces:chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube, mince | carve, hash. 3.•cut back the new growth to about half its length|•he should get his hair cut:trim, snip, clip, crop, barber, shear, shave | pare | prune, lop, dock | mow. 4.•I went to cut some flowers:pick, pluck, gather | literary cull. 5.•lettering had been cut into the stonework:carve, engrave, incise, etch, score | chisel, whittle. 6.•the government cut public spending:reduce, cut back/down on, decrease, lessen, retrench, trim, slim down | rationalize, downsize, lower, slash, chop. 7.•the text has been substantially cut:shorten, abridge, condense, abbreviate, truncate | edit | bowdlerize, expurgate. 8.•you need to cut at least ten lines per page:delete, remove, take out, excise, blue-pencil, chop. 9.•oil supplies to the area had been cut:discontinue, break off, suspend, interrupt | stop, end, put an end to. 10.•the point where the line cuts the vertical axis:cross, intersect, bisect | meet, join. 11.•she was suspended for cutting classes:skip, miss, play truant from | informal ditch, play hooky from.▶noun 1.•a cut on his jaw:gash, slash, laceration, incision, wound, injury | scratch, graze, nick. 2.•a cut of beef:piece, section. 3.informal •the directors are demanding their cut:share, portion, bit, quota, percentage | informal slice, piece of the pie, piece of the action. 4.•his hair was in need of a cut:haircut, trim, clip, crop. 5.•a smart cut of the whip:blow, slash, stroke. 6.•he followed this with the unkindest cut of all:insult, slight, affront, slap in the face, jibe, barb, cutting remark, put-down, dig. 7.•a cut in interest rates:reduction, cutback, decrease, lessening, rollback. 8.•the elegant cut of his jacket:style, design | tailoring, lines, fit. PHRASES cut back •if profits don't soon improve, we'll have to find ways to cut back|•they cut back on medical benefits:economize, downsize, pull/draw in one's horns, tighten one's belt, slim down, scale down | (cut back on) cut, cut down, decrease, lessen, retrench, reduce, trim | informal slash. cut down 1.•24 hectares of trees were cut down:fell, chop down, hack down, saw down, hew. 2.•he was cut down in his prime:kill, slaughter, shoot down, mow down, gun down | informal take out, blow away | literary slay. cut and dried •the answers to such questions are not always cut and dried:definite, decided, settled, explicit, specific, precise, unambiguous, clear-cut, unequivocal, black and white, hard and fast. cut in •excuse me for cutting in, but Glenda says that dinner's ready:interrupt, butt in, break in, interject, interpose, chime in. cut off 1.•how did this doll's arm get cut off? sever, chop off, hack off | amputate. 2.•oil and gas supplies were cut off:discontinue, break off, disconnect, suspend | stop, end, bring to an end. 3.•a community cut off from the mainland by the floodwaters:isolate, separate, keep apart | seclude, closet, cloister, sequester. cut out 1.•the lifeboat's engines cut out:stop working, stop, fail, give out, break down | informal die, give up the ghost, conk out. 2.•cut out all the diseased wood:remove, take out, excise, extract | snip out, clip out. 3.•it's best to cut out alcohol altogether:give up, refrain from, abstain from, go without | informal quit, lay off, knock off. cut out of •his mother cut him out of her will:exclude from, leave out of, omit from, eliminate from. cut short 1.•they cut short their vacation:break off, shorten, truncate, curtail, terminate, end, stop, abort, bring to an untimely end. 2.•several award recipients were cut short during their acceptance speeches:interrupt, cut off, butt in on, break in on. |
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