| 词组 | hack |
| 释义 | hack [hacked, hacked, hacking] hack about hack sth about BrE informal to make a lot of small changes to a book, play, film etc - often used when you disapprove of the way this has been done: ▪ I wish they'd left the play as it was in the original version, instead of hacking it about and trying to make it sound modern. hack away 1. hack away to cut something with repeated movements of a knife or something sharp, without being very careful about what you are doing: ▪ The hairdresser grabbed a piece of my hair and started hacking away before I could say anything. + at ▪ Jim went first, hacking away at the branches to clear a path. 2. hack away to gradually reduce something, for example by using or removing part of it + at ▪ The accountants have been hacking away at the budget for months. ▪ Tiger Woods began hacking away at his opponent's lead. hack down hack down sth • hack sth down to roughly cut down something such as trees or plants: ▪ We started to clear the garden, by hacking down trees and weeds. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cut down hack into hack into sth to use a computer to secretly and often illegally get into someone else's computer system without their permission, so that you can look at information: ▪ An Edinburgh University student used a simple desktop machine to hack into computers around the world. ▪ Morris, 25, is charged under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with hacking into a federal computer network. hack off 1. be hacked off BrE informal to feel very annoyed or angry: ▪ I'm feeling really hacked off at work at the moment. They're expecting me to do loads of overtime for free. + with/about ▪ Fans are hacked off by the team's poor performance in recent games. ■ SIMILAR TO: be pissed off informal, be fed up informal 2. hack off sth • hack sth off to remove something by cutting it with a knife or something sharp, in a rough and careless way: ▪ They started to hack off the dead branches. ▪ One of his arms had been hacked off with a machete. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑chop off hack up 1. hack up sth • hack sth up to get something out of your throat or lungs by coughing violently: ▪ It was a shock when I saw him sit up in bed and hack up some blood. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cough up, ↑bring up, ↑spew up BrE informal 2. hack up sth • hack sth up to cut something into pieces using a knife or something sharp, without being very careful about what you are doing: ▪ John used the axe to hack up some of the larger pieces of wood, and we carefully built a small campfire. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑chop up |
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