0 to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument -- 劈；砍；剁碎，切碎
2 an act of cutting something with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument -- 剁；砍；劈；切
Many of these special schools are facing the chop. 许多这样的特殊学校面临被裁减的命运。
When the reorganization occurs, the smaller departments will be the first for the chop. 进行重组时，较小的部门将会首先被砍掉。
Hundreds of workers at the factory have already been given the chop. 工厂的几百号工人已经被裁掉。
Anyone stepping out of line is liable to get the chop. 凡是不守规矩的人都有可能被解雇。
If you're late for work again, you'll be for the chop. 你上班再迟到就要被解雇。
3 the area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal -- （人或动物）嘴周围的地方
4 ability and technical skill, especially in playing a musical instrument -- 演奏乐器技巧；吹管乐器（如萨克斯）时用嘴的方式
By decreasing the chopping gap, the light intensity in the spark channels increases while decreasing in the gas diode.
Visually, this is equivalent to chopping off a branch of the network for parent one, and replacing it with a branch from parent two.
I could prevent his even chopping off the foot by giving another $1,000 to him.
Immature flukes were recovered from the liver tissue using pepsin digestion after chopping the liver.
In other words, the detachment fault is chopped by the steeper normal faults.
Naturally, this question could also be chopped up into finer bits; this is the well-known infinite regress of causation.
Ultimately, the columnar vortex pair is literally chopped into thin independent 'pancake' dipoles.
The material was chopped in small fragments after which representative samples were taken for chemical analysis.
