lop off

柯林斯詞典

1. PHRASAL VERB If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke. 砍掉
Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips. 有人剪掉了我們鬱金香的花冠。
...men with axes, lopping off branches. ...手持斧頭砍樹枝的男人們。
His ponytail had been lopped off. 他的馬尾辮被剪掉了。
2. PHRASAL VERB If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount. 削減; 縮短[非正式]
The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time. 法國航空公司的飛機在原來最短航行時間的基礎(chǔ)上又縮減了4個多小時。
More than 100 million dollars will be lopped off the prison building programme. 監(jiān)獄建設(shè)項目預(yù)算款中將會砍掉逾一億美元。