| 词汇 | lop |
| 释义 | lop verb[ T ] us/lɑp/-pp- to cut a piece from something with a single quick action: [ M ]We’ve got to lop off the lower branches of this tree. fig. The city council lopped thousands of dollars from the budget. Examples of loplop Of 120 reports, 40 refer to pollarding, shredding or lopping hedgerow trees. Therefore, he frequently tried to eliminate personal guilt by lopping off parts of the mind. Trees are lopped in an area six to ten times larger than the area where the tree branches are piled and burnt. Table 13 shows the results of testing lop-all with sequential sampling and sampling by shorter sentences and longer sentences. The most frequent general term is 'to lop'. Trees were an important source of fodder and their branches were regularly lopped so that sheep and cattle could eat their twigs and leaves. He deplored that the hornbeam was lopped by husbandmen making it 'deformed and hollow' and only good for firewood, while yet underlining its 'continuance and flourishing'. Local spending was even more lop-sided. However, it does not provide a significant reduction over lop-all using random sampling: the two combinations are equivalent in their effectiveness for using the annotated material. The frequency of pollarding depended on the product required: for fodder, trees were usually lopped annually; for wood, the lapse was variable, depending on the species. They took the form of successive persons appointed to the rank of chief secretary lopping £10 million off the budget. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Approximately £5 million has been lopped off it this year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If inspectors, however conscientious and however competent, inquire into three, four or half a dozen matters, they are producing a balance sheet which is lop-sided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It calls for a cut of £1,000 million over and above the £9,900 million already lopped off the defence budget. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is where the whole thing becomes lop-sided. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of lop 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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