hack about

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be idle; to waste time; to socialize. UK,colloquial,intransitive
    — “So Madam has taken Miss amongst the Parlez-vous! By Jove, if she had been my wife, she should have trained the filly at home. She’ll run none the better for all this hacking about.”
  2. To disfigure or damage by hacking; to cover with cuts. UK,transitive
    — All Paris now crowds to see “Barbe Bleue,” an opéra-bouffe […]. The dear old story of “Blue Beard” has been taken by Messieurs Meilhar and L. Halévy, who have ruthlessly hacked it about, until nothing of the original remains[…]

词形变化

hacks about present,singular,third-person hacking about participle,present hacked about participle,past hacked about past
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