Hack

(noun.) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc..

(noun.) a horse kept for hire.

(noun.) an old or over-worked horse.

(noun.) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil.

(noun.) one who works hard at boring tasks.

(noun.) a mediocre and disdained writer.

(verb.) cough spasmodically; 'The patient with emphysema is hacking all day'.

(verb.) significantly cut up a manuscript.

(verb.) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; 'I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best'.

(verb.) kick on the shins.

(verb.) kick on the arms.

(verb.) cut away; 'he hacked his way through the forest'.

(verb.) be able to manage or manage successfully; 'I can't hack it anymore'; 'she could not cut the long days in the office'.

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• From the point of view of the political hack, Judge Lindsey made a most distressing use of the red herring. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He has been laid up with a hack, and once he slipped his knee-cap, but that was nothing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Hence the degradation which the Colonel had almost suffered, of being obliged to enter the presence of his Sovereign in a hack cab. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• For himself he only wanted a useful hack, which would draw upon occasion; being about to marry and to give up hunting. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He took her to the Arion Ball, and had a hack for her both ways. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The hack drove to the wharf. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It had been hacked or torn right out from the roots. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He never liked to see me mend pens; my knife was always dull-edged--my hand, too, was unskilful; I hacked and chipped. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But the new thing did not fit into the little outlines and verbosities which served as a philosophy for our political hacks. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

手打:萨拜娜