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

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to saw wood

d. transitive. to saw wood, to attend to one's own affairs; to continue working steadily. U.S. colloquial.

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1894 Congress. Rec. 24 Jan. 1347/2 Is it possible that the framers of the bill hold a grudge against the voters who ‘sawed wood’ last November?

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 75 During all these wintry apostrophes, Barbara, cold at heart, sawed wood—the only appropriate thing she could think of to do.

1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xxix. 359 Say nothing and saw wood... It means ‘shut your mouth and keep on working’.

1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity iii. i. 264 He sees the next job and sits down to it—stays still and saws wood, as Lincoln said.

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单词	to saw wood
释义	> as lemmas to saw wood d. transitive. to saw wood, to attend to one's own affairs; to continue working steadily. U.S. colloquial. ΚΠ 1894 Congress. Rec. 24 Jan. 1347/2 Is it possible that the framers of the bill hold a grudge against the voters who ‘sawed wood’ last November? 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 75 During all these wintry apostrophes, Barbara, cold at heart, sawed wood—the only appropriate thing she could think of to do. 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xxix. 359 Say nothing and saw wood... It means ‘shut your mouth and keep on working’. 1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity iii. i. 264 He sees the next job and sits down to it—stays still and saws wood, as Lincoln said. extracted from sawv.¹ < as lemmas
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