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chopping block

砧板,挡板,砧板上的刀刃,砧板上的刀口

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thick, often large block of wood on which meat, vegetables, etc., are placed for cutting, trimming, chopping, and the like.

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Examples

  • They’re the same projects that have been on the chopping block since Ikhrata came to SANDAG in 2018, and began promising a new system built around hundreds of miles of fast, frequent trains.

  • “At least in the city of San Diego, the first services on the chopping block whenever there’s even a hint of a budget crisis are library hours, rec center hours and parks programs,” he said.

  • Still, Michigan will lose a seat, and because Wayne County has shrunk over the past decade, there’s a good chance a seat in the Detroit area will be on the chopping block.

  • The $15 minimum wage increase is now on the chopping block after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it fell outside the bill’s budgetary confines.

  • The Sun was not bound for the hedge-fund chopping block like several other papers owned by Tribune Publishing.

  • Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.

  • During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.

  • Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?

  • After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.

  • If someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.

  • The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.

  • The upper block was left a little thicker, the junction or root of the neck necessitating this.

  • The long unbroken block had as many and as various stores as are generally spread over the entire area of a town.

  • It had been very scanty information and late in its arrival—too late to enable the master manhunter to block the plan.

  • How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.