axed

英 [ækst]

美 [ækst]

v.  （经费、人员等的）削减
ax的过去分词和过去式; axe的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：axed　过去式：axed　

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 ax


• 斧;斧子
  Anaxeis a tool used for cutting wood. It consists of a heavy metal blade which is sharp at one edge and attached by its other edge to the end of a long handle.
• VERB 解雇;裁减;削减;撤销
  If someone's job or something such as a public service or a television programmeis axed, it is ended suddenly and without discussion.
  1. Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.
     处于困境的社会服务部门被迫砍掉社区项目。
• N-SING （通常为节省资金而进行的）解雇，撤销，关闭
  If a person or institution is facingthe axe, that person is likely to lose their job or that institution is likely to be closed, usually in order to save money.
  1. St Bartholomew's is one of four London hospitals facing the axe.
     圣巴塞洛缪医院是伦敦4个面临关闭的医院之一。
• PHRASE 有私心；有个人打算；另有企图
  If someonehas an axe to grind, they are doing something for selfish reasons.
  1. He seems like a decent bloke and I've got no axe to grind with him.
     他看上去像是个正派的家伙，而且我对他没有任何企图。

双语例句

• Community projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments.
  处于困境的社会服务部门被迫砍掉社区项目。
• I used to work in a supermarket but was axed when the firm had a bad trading year.
  我曾在一家超级市场工作；但有一年生意不景气时，我便被解雇了。
• Employers, for example, were much more likely to refuse requests for overtime and training, while 20 per cent said they had axed free drinks and biscuits at company meetings.
  例如，雇主更有可能拒绝员工加班和培训的申请，而20%的雇主表示，他们已取消在公司开会时提供免费饮料和小点心。
• Five hundred jobs were axed as a result of finicial crisis.
  由于经济危机的缘故，有五百人被解雇了。
• The scene was axed from the ad for her scent Fame.
  在发布的香水广告中，这个场景被剪切掉了。
• My old company axed me after they found out I had been sleeping on the job.
  公司发现我在上班期间睡着了就把我辞了。
• Jo danehl, a director at cartus intercultural and language solutions in the US, says during the recession a lot of youth programmes were axed but now businesses are buying again.
  美国凯图跨文化及语言解决方案（cartusinterculturalandlanguagesolutions）总监乔丹尼尔（jodanehl）表示，本次衰退期间，有许多青少年培训项目被砍掉，但现在企业已重新开始购买。
• Three of the six major studios axed subsidiaries that had specialised in buying independent films.
  六大电影公司中有三个关闭了专门买进独立电影的子公司。
• She was found axed near Nam mountain here.
  我们发现她在南山附近被斧子砍死了。
• Then, when a downturn hits, those non-core businesses blow up and have to be axed.
  然后当经济衰退来临的时候，这些非核心业务的肥皂泡破灭，难逃被裁撤的命运。