| 词汇 | ax |
| 释义 | ax noun (alsoaxe)us/æks/ axnoun (TOOL)[ C ] a tool consisting of a heavy iron or steel blade at the end of a long wooden handle, used for cutting wood axnoun (STOP)[ Cusually sing ] The ax is the order to give up your job or to stop or prevent something from happening: Three staff members got the ax yesterday. If the budget is cut, educational programs will get the ax. Everyone is scared to death wondering where the ax will fall next. ax verb[ T ] us/æks/ axverb[T] (STOP)to order someone suddenly to give up a job, or to stop or reduce something suddenly: The company has already axed 14 people, and many more may lose their jobs. Yesterday the airline axed three of its daily flights to Chicago. Examples of axax One swing of the ax is not going to get it done. From ESPN The ax has been around in one form or another for more than 1 million years. From Slate Magazine We just don't get to see inside those others because, in most cases, there's no ax handy. From Dallas Morning News The victim told police he heard someone shaking the door handle to his bedroom and saw the intruder grab the ax from beside the door. From Buffalo News Below, the muted echo of ax blows could be heard. From NBCNews.com When he couldn't jimmy open a drawer in the kitchen, he hit it with his ax. From Huffington Post One truck driver clubbed a resident with an ax. From CNN Sometimes, of course, you might have someone who has an ax to grind. From Plain Dealer With one blow of an ax to the back of his head, he was dead. From New York Post He doesn't peel a grape with an ax. From Chicago Tribune The terms and framing of this debate are no longer confined to those that are dictated by special interests with their own ax to grind. From CNN These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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