Lop
[lɒp] or [lɑp]
解释:
(n.) A flea.
(v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
(v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
(n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
(v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
(v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
(a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
录入:特丽萨
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Cut, cut off.[2]. Dock, crop, curtail, prune, cut short.[3]. Drop, let fall.
艾丽萨校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Prune, curtail, shorten, retrench, amputate, truncate
ANT:Grow, trail, train, elongate, lead
艾布拉姆编辑
解释:
v.i. to hang down loosely.—adjs. Lop′-eared having ears which hang downwards; Lop′sided heavier on one side than the other as a ship.
v.t. to cut off the top or ends of esp. of a tree: to curtail by cutting away superfluous parts:—pr.p. lop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. lopped.—n. twigs of trees cut off—ns. Lop′per; Lop′ping a cutting off: that which is cut off.
手打:梅尔瓦
例句:
- He saw that pigeon-fanciers and stock-breeders deve lop certain types by preserving those variations that have the desired characteristics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Defeated in that, his enemies resorted to a more devious method; they began to lop away his friends. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Their desire is for a full and expressive life and they do not relish a lop-sided and lamed humanity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The coachman he not likin' the job, Set off at full gal-lop, But Dick put a couple of balls in his nob, And perwailed on him to stop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Twenty-two friends of high public mark, twenty-one living and one dead, it had lopped the heads off, in one morning, in as many minutes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Yet a few hours, and Front-de-Boeuf is with his fathers--a powerful limb lopped off Prince John's enterprise. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The mere act of cutting and lopping at hazard appears to please him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
录入:内德