动词砍掉; 削减; 减少; 缩小; （从…）砍掉
1. （通常指快而狠地）砍下，剪去，截掉
If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke.
e.g. Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
有人剪掉了我们郁金香的花冠。
e.g. ...men with axes, lopping off branches...
手持斧头砍树枝的男人们
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2. 从（预算等中）削减（金钱）；从（计划等中）缩减（时间）
If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount.
e.g. The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time...
法国航空公司的飞机在原来最短航行时间的基础上又缩减了4个多小时。
e.g. More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme.
将从监狱建设项目中砍掉逾一亿英镑。
1. lop off的翻译
1. A flat export performance could lop a couple of percentage points off the GDP growth rate.