Cutting

(noun.) the act of diluting something; 'the cutting of whiskey with water'; 'the thinning of paint with turpentine'.

(noun.) a piece cut off from the main part of something.

(noun.) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting.

(adj.) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; 'a cutting wind'; 'keen winds'; 'knifelike cold'; 'piercing knifelike pains'; 'piercing cold'; 'piercing criticism'; 'a stabbing pain'; 'lancinating pain' .

(adj.) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; 'cutting remarks'; 'edged satire'; 'a stinging comment' .

整理:胡安妮塔

• It was then easy enough to obtain a fairly accurate silhouette, by either outlining the profile or cutting it out from the screen. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• What need you getting drunk, then, and cutting up, Prue? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He persuaded them to start cutting the blocks for the Gospel of St. Matthew. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• We should have everybody cutting everybody else's throat in five minutes. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Most cutters remove as little of the rough stone as possible in cutting so as to retain weight (they sell by weight). 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Other stone-cutting machines had for their objects the cutting and moulding the edges of tables, mantels and slabs; and the cutting of circular and other curved work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Wood-working implements in which the cutting tool was carried by a sliding block were described in the English patents of General Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah, in 1793-94. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I wanted to be cutting at those trees in the forest of difficulty, under circumstances that should prove my strength. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Tainter, who in 1886 patented in the United States means of cutting or engraving the sound waves in a solid body. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I, hate it altogether, and I hate everybody except you,' said the unnatural young Thomas Gradgrind in the hair-cutting chamber at twilight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Stow cutting away, you know! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We'll meet them with rifle-shots first, and give them a chance of cutting their feet to pieces. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• You could keep cutting it as we are doing farther south in Estremadura. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I will take the black clay with me, also the pencil cuttings. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• With plants which are temporarily propagated by cuttings, buds, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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