2[usually plural]CUT a small piece cut from something bigger 剪下物
hedge clippings
剪下的树篱
Examples from the Corpus
clipping• Some make hillocks thirty feet across, while others are happy with mounds of grassclippings.• Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.• Grass clippings can be recycled to make fertilizer.• I still have the newsclippings from that, arguments, accusations of censorship.• And where, Holtz wondered in a postscript, were the newspaper clippings from Melbourne?• On the wall were a few pressclippings of the trial.
newspaper/press clippings• Eli showed him newspaper clippings, photos of bodies that had been ground under tanktreads.• His pocketedstash of newspaper clippings apparently fuelledvividconversations.• But remember those old newspaper clippingsmentioning that he'd been hanged by the Home Office's principal Official Executioner?• Years from now, I will still be here, an old man, flipping through old press clippings.• And where, Holtz wondered in a postscript, were the newspaper clippings from Melbourne?• Letters to be read out were spread all over the desk, along with newspaper clippings and researchnotes on my two guests.• Bill Maher hoists a fatfolder filled with newspaper clippings on to a virtually empty desk in his new Los Angeles office.• It is filled with newspaper clippings of championships, trophies and pictures of a younger Impastato, hair as black as ink.