The stakes which I had cut out of some trees that grew thereabouts, were all shot out and grown with long branches, as much as a willow-tree usually shoots the first year after lopping its head.

从附近砍下来的那些树桩都发了芽,并长出了长长的枝条,仿佛是去年被修剪过的柳树一样。

A rabbit is lopping through the garden

一只兔子蹦蹦跳跳地跃过花园。

||1: These benefits would bring savings. ||2: Carbon capture could be lopping 30 billion off Britain’s annual energy bill by 2050, says the Energy Technology Institute, a government and industry research body. ||3: The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental outfit, reckons CCS will have to deliver one-sixth of the emissions cuts required to limit the damage done by climate change, and that forgoing it would raise costs by 40%.

||1:这些好处可以节省很多开支。||2:据政府和工厂的研究机构，能源技术研究所称，到2050年，碳捕捉技术有望为不列颠每年砍去300亿英镑的能源开支。||3:而据一座跨国机构国际能源所认为，采用CCS技术将减少六分之一的碳排放，这可以减少因此造成的气候而带来的损失。而如果放弃这项技术将导致损失上升40%

The Greens reckon that lopping a day off the working week would begin to redress the inequalities between men and women, since both paid and unpaid work might then be shared more evenly.

绿党认为，调减工作日将会开始调整男性与女性之间的不平等，因为女性上班和做家务的时间将会变得更加平衡。

Many will wonder if anyone can repeat Usain Bolt’s feat in Berlin in 2009, when the Jamaican clocked 9.58 seconds, lopping 0.11 seconds—aeons in a sprint—off the previous world record, which he set at the 2008 Beijing games.

许多人都想知道谁能重现博尔特奇迹，09年的柏林世界田径锦标赛上，博尔特以9秒58的成绩刷新了自己在08年北京奥运会创下的记录，这缩短的0.11秒在短跑界已经算是巨大的超越了。

if it is no, then they can experiment with more nuanced responses, such a lopping off a tainted product or sacrificing a rogue division.

如果答案是否定的，那么他们可细微的调整对策，见机行事，如砍掉某个有影响力的商品，或牺牲这个八卦的部门。

It has asserted its authority in some border towns by lopping off limbs or even the heads of men they accuse of fighting against them.

它通过砍掉与他们战斗的人的头和四肢声称在一些边境城镇的权力。

I accepted his apology instead of lopping off his head, and he redoubled his efforts at perfecting our service, going above and beyond.

我没有拧下他的脑袋，而是接受了他的道歉。而他则加倍努力超标准地、出色地完成了任务。

lopping axe

n.披枝斧,截枝斧

lopping tool

截枝用具

lopping tree

截枝树

lopping shears

钳工台长柄剪

lopping system

n.截枝作业

lopping forest

n.截枝林

lopping of branches

n.剪枝,修枝