remove by or as if by cutting;

"cut off the ear"

"lop off the dead branch"

it「s better to lop off long wisps than to try and save them.

离开长的小把剪比试而且解救他们比较好。

but real-estate construction accounts for another third of total investment spending, and its collapse should lop off at least an additional percentage point from economic growth.

但是房地产建筑在中国占了另一个三分之一的投资开支，它的崩溃起码会给经济增长抹去一个额外的百分点。

it」s like waking up one day, realizing you「re overweight and deciding the way to fix that is to lop off your left leg below the knee.

宛如一个人在梦醒时分，突然发现自己已是大腹便便，唯一能想到的减肥出路就是砍掉膝盖以下部分。

there he would force him to lie down, and in order to fit him to the bed he would lop off the lower parts of his limbs.

他强迫客人躺下，必且为了和床的长度相符，他就砍下他的四肢的下半部分。

you can talk about the origins of french nationalism in the middle of the eighteenth century, but it」s very closely tied to this dynasty, at least until they lop off the guy「s head in 1793.

你也可以畅谈在十八世纪中叶,法国民族主义的起源,但是它和法国王朝制联系很紧密,至少直到一七九三年,那个家伙被砍头前都如此

let」s lop off those repeated and empty words.

让我们把那些重复的、空洞的话都删掉吧。

he had to lop off whole pages of the report.

他必须砍除报告的全部页数。

the downturn has created a nation of cost, and hair- cutters. to help pare their budgets, more americans are bypassing the salon and opting to lop off their own locks.

经济的衰退已经增加了一个国家的成本，理发师们为了缩减他们的预算，更多的美国人开始不去美发沙龙而是自己修剪头发了。