之后，我把木头从一边砍开，然后从另一边砍开。

After that, I chopped the wood away from one side, and then from the other side.

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撕破，割裂，扯裂粗暴或猛力地砍开、撕开或扯开。

To cut, tear apart, or tear away roughly or energetically.

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水妖想：“还是快些回家象把斧子来把这玻璃山砍成两半吧。”可是等她取来斧子把玻璃山砍开时，小兄妹早已逃得远远的了。女水妖只好又回到井里去了。

However, by the time she returned and had chopped up the glass mountain, the children were far away and had escaped, so the water nixie had to trudge back to her well.

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