hew
vt. 砍, 砍倒, 砍成 vi. 砍, 劈, 坚持
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砍;劈;砍倒
砍;劈;坚持
释义与例句
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1.
Destruction by cutting down or hewing.
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Hue; colour.
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Shape; form.
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1.
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
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To shape; to form.
及物to hew out a sepulchre
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3.
To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
美国 及物Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
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From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”). Cognate to West Frisian houwe (“to hew”), Cimbrian hauan (“to dig”), Dutch houwen (“to hew”), German hauen (“to hew”), Luxembourgish haen (“to chop”), Danish hugge (“to hew”), Faroese høgga (“to hew”), Icelandic höggva (“to hew”), Norwegian Bokmål hogge, hugge (“to hew”), Norwegian Nynorsk hogga (“to hew”), Swedish hugga (“to hew”). Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).
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