Chopping

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chop

(a.) Stout or plump; large.

(a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

(n.) Act of cutting by strokes.

编辑:马克斯

• Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He was busily chopping away at the furze, a long row of faggots which stretched downward from his position representing the labour of the day. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The gum is collected by chopping through the bark with a hatchet and placing under each series of cuts a little clay cup formed by the hands of the workman. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In the presence of Lord Decimus, to detain the host with chopping our dry chaff of law, was really too bad! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• No,' said Miss Wren, chopping off the word. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Chopping about is merely an exhaustive process. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then I began to catch crabs and soon I was just chopping along again with a thin brown taste of bile from having rowed too hard after the brandy. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

校对:莎娜