英语词汇“to hack about”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To make a hack of; to use in an indiscriminate way; to make common, stale, or trite by such treatment. Also to hack about. Later only in to hack to death, probably with allusion to hack v.¹ 1a.

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1734 Gentleman's Mag. May 260/2 The favourite unmeaning Terms of Art..does he hack about, without any Mercy.

1762 C. Denis in St. James's Mag. 1 153 If ever tale was hackt about, Grown obsolete, almost worn out, 'Tis that which now I undertake.

1864 Spectator No. 1874. 614 We would that so good a name had not been..hacked about all over the country and in every newspaper, until it goes against the grain to use it.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 3 Her tenderest emotions had been hacked and vulgarized by long experience in flirtation.

1883 St. James's Gaz. 14 Dec. 3/2 [An] argument..which is being hacked to death in all the Radical newspapers.

1969 Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder 18 Jan. Song writers have literally hacked it to death.

1997 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 45 350 ‘Gypsy king’ is a term that has been hacked to death by cub journalists.

单词	to hack about
释义	> as lemmas to hack about 1. transitive. To make a hack of; to use in an indiscriminate way; to make common, stale, or trite by such treatment. Also to hack about. Later only in to hack to death, probably with allusion to hack v.¹ 1a. ΚΠ 1734 Gentleman's Mag. May 260/2 The favourite unmeaning Terms of Art..does he hack about, without any Mercy. 1762 C. Denis in St. James's Mag. 1 153 If ever tale was hackt about, Grown obsolete, almost worn out, 'Tis that which now I undertake. 1864 Spectator No. 1874. 614 We would that so good a name had not been..hacked about all over the country and in every newspaper, until it goes against the grain to use it. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 3 Her tenderest emotions had been hacked and vulgarized by long experience in flirtation. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 14 Dec. 3/2 [An] argument..which is being hacked to death in all the Radical newspapers. 1969 Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder 18 Jan. Song writers have literally hacked it to death. 1997 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 45 350 ‘Gypsy king’ is a term that has been hacked to death by cub journalists. extracted from hackv.³ < as lemmas
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