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hew

/hyoo or, often, yoo/US // hyu or, often, yu //UK // (hjuː) //

砍伐,砍伐树木,呵,砍伐的

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v.有主动词 verb
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    hewed, hewed or hewn, hew·ing.

    • : to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
    • : to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows: to hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble.
    • : to sever from a whole by means of cutting blows: to hew branches from the tree.
    • : to cut down; fell: to hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    hewed, hewed or hewn, hew·ing.

    • : to strike with cutting blows; cut: He hewed more vigorously each time.
    • : to uphold, follow closely, or conform: to hew to the tenets of one's political party.

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Examples

  • That system weakened as members of all three branches hewed increasingly to the platforms of the two political parties.

  • The xEMU has bearings that are lighter and hew closer to the joints than ones used for previous EMUs.

  • The pandemic has been the ultimate stress test on us and on our nation, and it doesn’t hew to human timelines.

  • All other Senate races hewed quite close to presidential results — and because this year’s Senate races took place largely on Republican turf, that was a big blow to Democrats’ efforts to flip the chamber.

  • Instead of hewing to the usual limit, we created five separate lists this year.

  • That may make them more likely to, collectively, hew to a more moderate path when giving odds on the election.

  • Designers hew to their legacies for fall lines, while Armani argues against his reputation for elegance.

  • After Jobs left, Scully says, the company tried to hew to his design philosophy.

  • Behind all the finger-wagging is the idea that movies about history need to hew to facts.

  • His object was to reach Allahabad that night—not to hew his way through opposing hordes and risk being cut down in the process.

  • Draw the belt tighter, my son, and hew me out this tree that is fallen across the road, for our campground is not here.

  • Then bade the King his men hew the ice and release his ships into the lake, and so went the men and set to work to hew the ice.

  • Look at the swagger of the vagabond who commands his braves, would you not think he was about to hew down everything in sight?

  • The other man was negligible—a bovine lump of flesh without personality—born to hew wood and draw water for men of enterprise.