hewing
v. (用斧、刀等)砍、劈( hew的现在分词 ); 砍成; 劈出; 开辟
If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe.
He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber.
他自己砍树、剥皮、劈成木材。
If something is hewn from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood.
...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been hewn.
开凿出下闸室和地下通道的岩石
...medieval monasteries hewn out of the rockface.
在岩壁上凿出的中世纪修道院
He was hewing away at the trunk of the tree.
他不停地照着树干砍去.
He was hewing away at the trunktree.
他不停地照著树干砍去.
I learned in a hard school and I knew the importance of hewing to the line.
我在一所要求严格的学校里念过书,因此知道服从纪律的重要性.
Since September a new book hewing closer to the old style has replaced it.
九月,它就被一本遵守旧样式的教材取而代之了.