Snip

(noun.) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).

(verb.) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; 'dress the plants in the garden'.

欧文录入

• So I am; but it is only a snip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The busy little dressmaker quickly snipped the shirt away, and laid bare the results of as furious and sound a thrashing as even Mr Fledgeby merited. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His mother was snipping dead leaves from the window-plants. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Two girls were posing and he cut their silhouettes together, snipping very fast and looking at them, his head on one side. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It's not work, cutting out a pattern isn't,' said Miss Jenny, with her busy little scissors already snipping at some paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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