axe
音標[æks]中文翻譯：
n. 斧, 斧頭
vt. 削減(人員、經費、計畫、機構等)
例句：
- The heavy axe was awkward to use.這把重斧頭不好用。
- The man cleft a block of wood in two with an axe.那人用斧頭把一塊木頭劈成兩半。
- Several of our plans got the axe when the new government came in.新政府上台後，我們有幾個計畫被砍掉了。
- Five hundred jobs were axed as a result of government spending cuts.由於政府縮減經費的緣故，有五百人被突然解僱了。
英文解釋：
名詞 axe:
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle同義詞：ax
動詞 axe:
- chop or split with an ax同義詞：ax
- terminate同義詞：ax