hack

chop, cut, hack

名词 hack:

1. one who works hard at boring tasks
   同义词：drudge, hacker
2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
   同义词：machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack
3. a mediocre and disdained writer
   同义词：hack writer, literary hack
4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
   同义词：cab, taxi, taxicab
6. an old or over-worked horse
   同义词：jade, nag, plug
7. a horse kept for hire
8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

动词 hack:

1. cut with a hacking tool
   同义词：chop
2. be able to manage or manage successfully
   同义词：cut
3. cut away
4. kick on the arms
5. kick on the shins
6. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
   同义词：hack on
7. significantly cut up a manuscript
   同义词：cut up
8. cough spasmodically
   同义词：whoop

1. The publisher paid his hacks low.
   出版商付给他雇佣的文人很低的费用。
2. He was hacking at a tree.
   他正在砍树。

hack

v.（动词）
hacked,hack.ing,hacks
v.tr.（及物动词）
To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows:
乱劈，乱砍：重复以不规则的方式砍或劈：
例句：
hacked down the saplings.
把小树砍倒

To break up the surface of (soil).
开辟，开垦：破坏（土地的）表面
Slang To cut or mutilate as if by hacking:
【俚语】 削减，删除：象刀劈一样削减或切割：
例句：
hacked millions off the budget.
削减了几百万元的预算

Slang To cope with successfully; manage:
【俚语】 成功地对付；处理：
例句：
couldn`t hack a second job.
做不了其它工作

v.intr.（不及物动词）
To chop or cut something by hacking.
劈砍：用砍的方式劈或割某物
Computer Science To work or perform as a hacker.
【计算机科学】 编程序：象一个电脑黑客那样工作或操作
To cough roughly or harshly.
干咳：猛烈而沙哑地咳嗽
n.（名词）
A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.
砍痕：由于劈砍形成的粗糙、不规则的切痕
A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.
用于劈，砍的工具，如锄头
A blow made by hacking.
砍击
A rough, dry cough.
干咳：猛烈的干咳

来源：
Middle English hakken
中古英语 hakken
from Old English -haccian * see keg-
源自 古英语 -haccian *参见 keg-
V., intr., sense 2, back-formation from hacker
不及物动词释义2，源自 hacker的逆成词

【引伸】
hack.able
adj.（形容词）

---------------另--------------
hack
hack 2

n.（名词）
A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.
乘用马：用于乘坐或骑用的马匹；役用马
A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.
老马：用于外租的衰弱的驽马；老马

One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.
雇佣工：为了钱或奖励而做一些没有意思或令人讨厌的工作的人；雇佣工
A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.
雇佣文人：受雇写一些公文或商业文章的作者
A carriage or hackney for hire.
用于出租的马车或汽车
Informal
【非正式用语】
A taxicab.
出租车
See hackie
参见 hackie
v.（动词）
hacked,hack.ing,hacks
v.tr.（及物动词）
To let out (a horse) for hire.
出借（马匹）以供别人租用
To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.
使…变陈腐：因不加区别的使用而使之变得平庸，陈腐
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To drive a taxicab for a living.
为了谋生开出租车
To work for hire as a writer.
作雇佣文人
To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.
骑马行进：以普通的速度骑着马走
adj.（形容词）
By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing:
平庸乏味的：有公文或商业文章特点的，或代表了这种文章的：
例句：
hack prose.
平庸乏味的文章

Hackneyed; banal.
陈腐的；平庸的

来源：
Short for hackney
hackney的简写