slash

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slash1 /slæʃ/ verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]CUT to cut or try to cut something violently with a knife, sword etc 〔用刀、劍等〕猛削，劈，砍

Someone had slashed the tires.

有人把輪胎割破了。

slash at/through

The leopard’s claws slashed through the soft flesh.

豹的爪子紮入柔軟的肉裏。

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2 [transitiveT]REDUCE to greatly reduce an amount, price etc – used especially in newspapers and advertising 大幅度削減〔數量、價格等；尤用於報紙和廣告〕 SYN cut

The workforce has been slashed by 50%.

勞動力已削減了 50%。

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3. slash your wrists to cut the veins in your wrists with the intention of killing yourself 割腕（自殺）

Examples from the Corpus

slash your wrists• In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists.• On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists.• Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.• Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.• She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.• Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.• Four other suicide attempts, including slashing her wrists with a razor blade, were also detailed.• Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade.

Examples from the Corpus

slash• And aerobically fit skaters slash and glide along groomed tracks.• Mr Jackson said Cardow had been injured and later his face had been slashed by friends of the dead man.• Come to our Summer Sale, where prices have been slashed by up to 75%.• His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.• Final Sale. All prices slashed. Everything must go!• British Airways have slashed fares by over 50%.• She slashed her wrists with a razor blade.• Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.• Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.• Public spending has been slashed over the past two years.• American car manufacturers have started slashing prices in an effort to stimulate sales.• Congress has slashed the budget for programs to help poor families.• Someone had slashed the car's tires.• Sony has slashed the price of its new CD player, the D50.• Someone had slashed the tyres on Bayle's car.• As irrational as it sounds, many companies hire new workers and then turn around and slash their payrolls.• The painting had been slashed with a knife.

slash at/through• He slashed at Alexei, talons out, but Alexei had anticipated the move.• A swarthy fellow with ringlets was taking a slash at her with a heavy cutlass.• She imagined that slash through herself.• Marlowe grabbed Frizer s dagger, slashing at him wildly about the head.• He slashed at his opponent's head, wearing him down.• BFreeman wants to slash at least $ 400 million from an annual budget of $ 2. 4 billion.• The leopard's claws slashed through soft flesh.• In the half-light I am awe-struck by the steel-grey slash through the dark landscape a few kilometres away.• Religious extremists broke through police lines to slash at the pro-reform protesters with broken bottles and clubs.

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slash2 noun [countableC]

1. PMWa quick movement that you make with a knife, sword etc in order to cut someone or something 〔用刀、劍等的〕砍，劈，猛削

2. (also slash mark)SLA a line (/) used in writing to separate words, numbers, or letters 斜線符號〔用以分隔單詞、數字或字母〕

3 CUTa long narrow cut in something 長條的切口[裂口] → gash

Cut several slashes across the top of the loaf before baking.

面包烘烤前在上面切幾道口子。

4. have/take a slash British EnglishBrE spoken not politeHBH to urinate 撒尿

Examples from the Corpus

have/take a slash• And some London pubs have slashed their prices from £1.70 a pint to less than a pound.• To woo customers, carpet stores have slashed prices, which cut into the bottom line of carpet manufacturers.• The telecommunications giant joined a growing number of employers in growth industries that have slashed payrolls even as their profits soared.• A swarthy fellow with ringlets was taking a slash at her with a heavy cutlass.• We have slashed soot and dust emissions by nearly 90 percent.• A bill that would have slashed child support payments for most divorced fathers failed in the state Assembly.• Last year, Hayworth supported welfare-reform legislation that would have slashed federal spending by $ 66 billion over five years.• You have slashed costs and created an extensive new marketing campaign.

Examples from the Corpus

slash• Many of these cards were marked with a slash to show the killings had been carried out.• Every instinct tells us to run for cover: to withhold information, slash jobs and cut investment.• Down the front of it there was a long slash.• There was a vertical slash in the canvas.

From Longman Business Dictionary

slashslash /slæʃ/ verb [transitiveT] journalism

to greatly reduce an amount, price etc

Over the last year the workforce has been slashed by 50%.

At least $400 million may be slashed from an annual budget of $2.4 billion.

Origin slash1

(1500-1600) Probably from Old French eslachier “to break”

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