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VERB
劈;砍;亂劈;猛砍
If you hack something or hack at it, you cut it with strong, rough strokes using a sharp tool such as an axe or knife.
例句
An armed gang barged onto the train and began hacking and shooting anyone in sight...
一伙持械歹徒闖上火車，開始見人就砍、舉槍便射。
Some were hacked to death with machetes...
有些人被大砍刀砍死。
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VERB
（在叢林等中）開辟道路
If you hack your way through an area such as a jungle or hack a path through it, you move forward, cutting back the trees or plants that are in your way.
例句
We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle.
我們負責在叢林中開路。
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VERB
大幅縮減（大小、長度）;大幅降低（價格）
If you hack at or hack something which is too large, too long, or too expensive, you reduce its size, length, or cost by cutting out or getting rid of large parts of it.
例句
He hacked away at the story, eliminating one character entirely.
他大幅縮短了這篇故事，將其中一個人物徹底砍掉了。
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N-COUNT
（粗制濫造的）職業文人，雇傭文人
If you refer to a professional writer, such as a journalist, as a hack, you disapprove of them because they write for money without worrying very much about the quality of their writing.
例句
...tabloid hacks, always eager to find victims in order to sell newspapers.
為了使報紙好賣而總是急于尋找犧牲品的小報蹩腳記者們
...a hack writer of cheap romances.
撰寫庸俗的愛情故事的雇傭文人
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二流政客;政治仆從
If you refer to a politician as a hack, you disapprove of them because they are too loyal to their party and perhaps do not deserve the position they have.
例句
Far too many party hacks from the old days still hold influential jobs.
太多以前的老黨棍依然身居要職。
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VERB
（尤指為獲取機密信息）侵入，非法進入（他人的計算機系統）
If someone hacks into a computer system, they break into the system, especially in order to get secret information.
例句
The saboteurs had demanded money in return for revealing how they hacked into the systems.
那些故意破壞者索要錢財，以作為透露自己是如何非法進入該電腦系統的交換條件。
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VERB
騎馬
If you hack or go hacking, you go out for a ride on horseback.
例句
The children could be seen hacking across the hillside on their ponies.
可以看到孩子們正騎著小馬穿過山坡。
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N-COUNT
騎馬
A hack is a ride on horseback.
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供出租的騎用馬
A hack is a horse which people can hire from a stable to go out riding.
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PHRASE
做不來;無法應付
If you say that someone can't hack it or couldn't hack it, you mean that they do not or did not have the qualities needed to do a task or cope with a situation.
例句
You have to be strong and confident and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it...
你必須堅強自信，千萬不要給人留下絲毫你應付不來的印象。
Smith tries to convince them that he can hack it as a police chief.
史密斯試圖讓他們相信，作為警長自己能應付得了。
Noun
1. one who works hard at boring tasks
2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
3. a mediocre and disdained writer
4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
6. an old or over-worked horse
7. a horse kept for hire
8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
Verb
1. cut with a hacking tool
2. informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;
"I can't hack it anymore""she could not cut the long days in the office"3. cut away;
"he hacked with way through the forest"4. kick on the arms
5. kick on the shins
6. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;
"I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"7. significantly cut up a manuscript
8. cough spasmodically;
"The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"