Up to 300 workers are facing the axe at a struggling Merseyside firm.

艰苦挣扎的默西赛德公司有多达300名工人面临被解雇。

《牛津词典》

The stuff in the car would include a kettle, a dish, a blanket, a chair, a bucket and an axe.

车上的东西包括一个壶、一个盘子、一条毯子、一把椅子、一个提桶和一把斧头。

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He looks like he's got an axe to grind. Better have a talk with him.

他看来是牢骚满腹，你最好找他谈谈。

《新英汉大辞典》

Paul Bunyan could clear large wooded areas with a single stroke of his large, sharp axe.

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Several times at public executions in 1698 and 1699, he brushed the executioner away, grabbed the axe and did the dirty work himself, chopping off a head or two.

在1698年和1699年的数次公开行刑里,他轰走了刽子手,抄起斧子亲自动手,手刃了几个囚犯

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That could be good advice. If you strike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that is cut off will fall into your eye.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

But taking a meat axe to Medicaid in a frantic attempt to hit a politically-motivated budget target is not the way to do it.

FORBES: Medicaid, The Frail Elderly, And Federal Budget Cuts

And now the agent provocateur wielding a swinging axe across the public sector and a spate of tax increases says that the central bank is doing the right thing by looking beyond short-term factors causing above target price pressures.

FORBES: Spencer Dale Points To Denuded Emperor Of Deflation

President Obama often claims he wants to cut the budget smartly, using a "scalpel" not a meat axe, machete, cleaver or chainsaw, to list a few of his favorite metaphors.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: About That 'Scalpel' . . .