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scalpel

/skal-puhl/US // ˈskæl pəl //UK // (ˈskælpəl) //

手术刀,头皮刀,解解刀,剖腹产

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small, light, usually straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.

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Examples

  • They’re managing outbreaks with a scalpel, instead of a machete.

  • It was the culmination of months of learning to be comfortable with the body in front of us, a process that accumulated in small pauses between tasks, before digging in with tweezers and a scalpel.

  • A few years ago, Procter & Gamble and Unilever overhauled their PPC strategies and took a scalpel to their budgets, decreasing them by 6% and 30%, respectively.

  • Regardless, the rise of tutoring bots over marketplaces illustrates that some of the biggest decision-makers in edtech are taking a scalpel to the way that tutoring used to work and hope to scale faster by doing so.

  • You have to use the electric scalpel and make a shaky incision on purpose, because palm lines are never completely straight.

  • All you need is a competent plastic surgeon with an electric scalpel who has a basic knowledge of palmistry.

  • "You give the scalpel to the doctors for a reason," said O'Mara.

  • Using a scalpel, Rowe cuts out portions of the illustration and then stands them up.

  • Boycotting a country is the equivalent of a blunt, lethal machete not a delicate scalpel.

  • If he lack a corpse, he stretches himself on the slab of black marble and buries the scalpel deep in his own heart.

  • Althotas listened in silence, with no other token of impatience than fidgeting with a scalpel in his hands.

  • Take the scalpel and sever the spinal column without cutting the larynx.

  • I jerked my head aside far enough that the scalpel grated along my cheekbone instead of slashing my mouth.

  • Let your mind be as a sharp scalpel, penetrating unrealities and falsehoods, cutting its way to the facts.