chop down

英 [tʃɒp daʊn]

美 [tʃɑːp daʊn]

砍倒; 伐倒

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 砍倒;伐倒
  If youchop downa tree, you cut through its trunk with an axe so that it falls to the ground.
  1. Sometimes they have to chop down a tree for firewood.
     他们有时只好砍树当柴烧。

英英释义

verb

• cut down
  1. George chopped down the cherry tree

双语例句

• I chop down trees, I wear high heels, Suspendies and a bra. I wish I'd been a girlie, Just like my dear papa.
  我砍树，我穿高跟鞋、吊袜带、和胸罩，我希望我是个人妖，就像我亲爱的老爸！
• George had often seen his father's men chop down great trees in the forest, and he thought that it would be fine sport to see this tree fall with a crash to the ground.
  乔治经常看见他父亲的工人们在森林里把大树砍倒。他想，看着这棵树轰隆一声倒在地上，一定是一种很有趣的游戏。
• I often think of a quote from the real Abe Lincoln: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
  我经常听到人们引用林肯的格言：“给我六小时砍倒一棵树，我会花头一个小时磨锋利我的斧头。”
• We birds are homeless now because people chop down to many trees and destroy the forests to build houses and grow crops for themselves.
  有的人为了造房屋、植经济作物，滥伐森林，使我们鸟类同胞无家可归。
• I'm going to chop down some of the old apple trees; they've almost stopped producing fruit.
  我要砍倒一些老苹果树，因为它们已经几乎不结果了。
• Wouldn't it be simpler to chop that tree down?
  干脆把那棵树砍掉不是更简单吗？
• She doesn't chop it down to sell the firewood.
  她可不会把树砍倒拿去当柴火卖。
• So he set to work with his little hatchet, and, as the tree was a very small one, it did not take long to chop it down.
  于是乔治用他的小斧子砍了起来。因为这棵树很小，所以他没用多长时间就把它砍倒了。
• According to the complex topography, especially mountain area, this paper adopted the new traverse in a hydroelectric engineering, which avoid the tree to chop down and insure orientation to see good.
  结合山岭重丘地区的一水电工程，根据其特殊的地形条件，采用了新型的导线布网形式，避免了树木的大量砍伐，确保通视良好；
• I cried when they had to chop it down.
  当他们要把它砍倒，我还哭了呢。