on the chopping block

基本解釋

• 在砧板上
• 將被廢除

英漢例句

雙語例句

• Seven fire companies and several city swimming pools are on the chopping block.
  七家消防公司和幾個市內(nèi)游泳館已經(jīng)被搬上了砧板。
• This makes it troubling that many cities and states, struggling to make up budget shortfalls, have put schools on the chopping block.
  很多疲于應(yīng)對預(yù)算減少的城市和州已把學(xué)校列入犧牲對象，這著實令人擔(dān)憂。
• A congressional supercommittee needs to agree on $1.2 trillion worth of spending cuts by November 23 or else the defense budget will be on the chopping block.
  國會一個高級委員會必須在11月23日之前就1.2萬億美元的開支削減達(dá)成一致，否則，國防預(yù)算就無法通過。

權(quán)威例句

• And on the chopping block they will be if President Obama has his way.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: McKeon: Saving defense from defense savings
• Actors Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds are the latest celebrity couple on the chopping block.
  FORBES: Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds Divorce: Why Work And Love Don't Mix
• The first item up on the chopping block is called post-normal science (PNS).
  FORBES: The Post-Normal Seduction of Climate Science

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