PHRASAL VERB If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke. 砍掉
Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
有人剪掉了我们郁金香的花冠。
...men with axes, lopping off branches.
...手持斧头砍树枝的男人们。
His ponytail had been lopped off.
他的马尾辫被剪掉了。
PHRASAL VERB If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount. 削减; 缩短 [非正式]
The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time.
法国航空公司的飞机在原来最短航行时间的基础上又缩减了4个多小时。
More than 100 million dollars will be lopped off the prison building programme.
监狱建设项目预算款中将会砍掉逾一亿美元。
He had to lop off whole pages of the report.
他必须砍除报告的全部页数。
Let's lop off those repeated and empty words.
让我们把那些重复的、空洞的话都删掉吧。
I say, 'Maybe you could lop off the second floor entirely.'
我说,‘也许你可以干脆把第二层楼都去掉。’
You can talk about the origins of French nationalism in the middle of the eighteenth century, but it's very closely tied to this dynasty, at least until they lop off the guy's head in 1793.
你也可以畅谈在十八世纪中叶,法国民族主义的起源,但是它和法国王朝制联系很紧密,至少直到一七九三年,那个家伙被砍头前都如此
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