chop at something phrasal verbphr v SWING A TOOLCUTto hit something with a sharp tool in order to cut it 砍，劈 They chopped at the bushes with their knives. 他们用刀劈开灌木丛。
chop at • There was Mrs Katz, impossibly animated, chopping at her mind.• He turned and waded back into the wheat and chopped at it with a shovel.• We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth, chopping at it with jungle machetes.• And I would rather do anything than chop at stumps that were bigger across than a small crowd.• And there were men chopping at the trees.
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