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

• You need to chop down the tree at its trunk.
  你要砍树干来砍倒这颗树。
• 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。
• She doesn't chop it down to sell the firewood.
  她可不会把树砍倒拿去当柴火卖。
• 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。”
• Don't you know that I need men who can chop down dozens of trees a day?
  你不知道我要的是一天能砍上百棵树的壮汉吗？
• 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。
• She asked them to chop down the weeds in the yard and make a path for her to the clothesline.
  她吩咐他们把院子里的杂草割掉，给她割出一条通向凉衣绳的小路。
• 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。
• 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；
• Every day, the woodman would set out early in the morning to chop down trees.
  每天早上，樵夫总是很早就出去砍柴。