单词 | hew |
释义 | hew I. transitive verb 1. < the miners who hew out the coal — G.B.Shaw > 2. 3. < my own grandparents hewed their farms from the wilderness — J.T.Shotwell > < hew out a rock tomb > intransitive verb 1. 2. < each of his … masterpieces hews to its stanza form with meticulous accuracy — Clement Wood > < if he is elected … he will hew to the constitutional law — New York Times > < avoiding sentimentality by hewing doggedly to domestic realism — Roger Pippett > — often used in the phrase hew to the line < I learned in a hard school and I know the importance of hewing to the line — Archie Binns > Synonyms: see cut II. now chiefly dialect variant of hue |
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