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old saw• Now that is no joke because one of these big old saws can weigh the best part of half a ton.• Which brings to mind that old saw about being careful what you wish for..• That reminds me of that old saw about being careful what you wish for.• How like you to produce that old saw out of your bag of tricks!• I am mindful of the old saw that economicpolicy is much too important to be left to the economists.• In sum, their experience reverses the old saw about immigration and prosperity.• There is no truth to the old saw that business is always more efficient than government, he has learned.• We all grew up with the old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words.
saw at • He hated what he saw at Evanston.• I saw at first hand what a regressiveprisonregime does to prisoners.• We had come into the kitchen, and I saw at once that nothing was as I had left it.• Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the termcaptiveaudience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.• Sorry as he was, he saw at once that to refuse would give the whole thing away.• I saw at that moment how much Adler had helped her.• Despite what you saw at the club.• Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarrecollection of wheels and cogs.
3saw something ↔ offphrasal verbphr vCUTto remove something by cutting it off with a saw 把…锯掉
We sawed off the dead branches.
我们把枯枝锯掉。
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saw off• Coronado, who thought him to be out of his mind, reluctantly saw the men off.• When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief.• Do not simply saw the trunk off at soil level as this will later attracthoneyfungus.• They saw her off into the splashed black and rainyyellow night.• Glancing sideways, he saw Collymore veer off, roll and gracefully arch like a porpoise, and go down again.• When I saw Neil heading off the first tee, bag on shoulder, I was relieved.• Dexter looked back and saw Russell drain off the last drops of his lager.• And then they saw him getting off the streetcar and raced to meet him.
4saw something ↔ upphrasal verbphr vCUTto cut something into many pieces, using a saw 把…锯成小块
The tree was cut down and sawn up for logs.
这棵树被砍倒,锯成了一段段木头。
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saw up• My grandmother used to live in back of the highway and saw her tied up.• Young Jinny here reckons she saw it heading up here yesterday.• I saw a boy up in one of the trees.• Some one saw me running up that right-handstaircase, running for the train.• She saw you coming up the drive, and hit on the ideal way to take her revenge.• Neighboursraised the alarm when they saw flames light up the early-hours darkness in Ferry Road, Edinburgh.• He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slopebehind him.• The only other sighting we've had was a farmworker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine.
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saw• We had to saw the wood to the right length, and then nail the pieces together.• It took all morning to saw up the logs.