1·Other bidders made little secret of their intention to wield the axe.
而其它竞标者挥动大斧裁员的意图昭然若揭。
2·In fact, the bird has no choice but to perch on the handle of an axe, which has been used to destroy its original home.
实际上，这只鸟别无选择，只能停在被用来破坏它原来家园的斧柄上。
3·The second is the spending review on October 20th, when Mr Osborne will reveal where the axe will fall.
第二次是10月20日的支出审议，那时奥斯本将决定消减支出的大斧将落向哪个地方。
4·Getting there took me through two days of snow, ice and below-freezing camping conditions, using crampons, an ice axe, and more layers than I thought I owned.
经受着冰雪和低温的考验，在鞋底钉和冰斧的帮助下，我用了整整2天的时间才终于成功登顶。
5·It's the hand axe.
它，便是手斧。
1·Another year of recovery would help confidence more than a premature swing of the fiscal axe.
比起财政削减初期的经济动荡，经济复苏的另一年将更能提升民众信心。
2·Some bosses may be tempted to axe maintenance work-and workers-altogether, because they have plenty of spare capacity.
部分老板试图一并削减维修工作维修人员，因为他们几乎无事可做。
3·Determine if the writer is grinding his own axe or the characters live in their own logic and act accordingly.
要确定作者是否能够忍受自己对剧本进行削减修改，或者人物角色是否是按照他们自己的逻辑经历来表演。
4·That allows Republicans, who want to take an axe to the budget, to claim they are chopping away.
共和党人想要削减预算，他们因此得以宣称正在削减。
5·In December GM had said it would cut the number of plants from 47 in 2008 to 38 by 2012, but has now added another five factories facing the axe, which would leave it with 33 facilities.
去年12月GM曾说它计划把它的工厂从2008已有47家到2012年砍至38家，但现在它又准备多削减5家，这使得它只保留33家工厂。
1·She cleaved his skull (in two) with an axe.
她用斧头把他的颅骨劈成两半。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Then the woodcutter let his axe fly – Thwack! Everyone heard it.
然后那个伐木工脱手甩出了斧头。哐！的一声，每个人都听见了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·I strike bad people's heads off; and I hear that my axe rings!
我专砍坏人的脑袋；我听到我的斧头在颤动！
4·Please sharpen the edge of this axe.
请把这把斧头的刃磨快。
5·Another bold idea, mooted more by observers than by those who would have to wield the axe, is dismissing forthwith any MP found to have fiddled.
另一个大胆的构想，由旁观者而非那些必须挥舞斧头的人所提出的，是马上开除所有被发现有欺骗行为的议员。