詞彙精選：hack的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
(disapproving)僱傭文人（尤指廉價受僱撰寫報紙庸俗文章者）
例句：
He was a literary hack, naturally fast in pace and brilliant in action.
他是個僱傭文人，不過天生下筆千言，很有些才氣而已。
例句：
The publisher paid his hacks low.
出版商付給他僱傭的文人很低的費用。
(disapproving)從事艱苦乏味工作的人，雜務人員
例句：
Dreiser had apparently disappeared into hack journalism.
德萊塞顯然遁跡於庸碌無爲的新聞生活。
供人騎的馬
例句：
She gave Scarlett a glare as she saw her look longingly at the hack.
嬤嬤看見思嘉仍在戀戀不捨地打量那輛出租馬車，便惡狠狠地瞪了她一眼。
(AmE)出租車
砍，劈
例句：
He made a hack at the log.
他朝圓木上砍了一下。
例句：
This is no hack - and - slash, you win by creativity.
這不是砍砍殺殺的那種遊戲，你得動足腦筋才能取勝。
v.
劈，砍 [I,T]
例句：
You'd better hack off the branch of that willow.
你最好把那棵柳樹的枝丫砍掉。
例句：
You'd better hack off that branch that's hanging over the neighbour's garden.
你最好把懸到鄰居花園上的那根枝丫砍掉。
猛踢 [T]
(computing)非法入侵（他人計算機系統）[I,T]
例句：
More typically, prosecutions under the act have involved people who hack into computer systems.
使用這一法案進行的訴訟，較爲典型的起訴對象是入侵他人電腦系統的黑客。
例句：
One of the hacked sites was an educational website run by Seyyed Morteza Mousavian.
其中一個遭到入侵的網站是由SeyyedMortezaMousavian經營的一家教育網站。
應付 [T]
例句：
Can you hack it as a lumber jack?
你當伐木工人可以熬得住嗎？
例句：
I just can't hack it.
我就是對付不了。
騎馬，開出租車 [I]
二、詞義辨析：
chop,cut,hack
這些動詞均有“切、砍”之意。chop指用刀斧連續猛力砍某物，以便砍斷、切碎。cut普通用詞，使用廣泛。指用帶刃工具的切、割、砍等的行動。hack指粗暴地亂剪、亂砍、亂劈。
三、相關短語：
hack saw
弓鋸
hack writer
受人僱用的窮文人, 替人家寫打雜文章的落魄文人
四、參考例句：
I just can't hack it.
我就是對付不了。
He made a hack at the log.
他朝圓木上砍了一下。
Dreiser had apparently disappeared into hack journalism.
德萊塞顯然遁跡於庸碌無爲的新聞生活。
I want to hack around for a year after college.
我想在大學畢業後過一年清閒的日子
You'd better hack off the branch of that willow.
你最好把那棵柳樹的枝丫砍掉。
He started to hack away at the tree bark.
他開始砍樹皮。
Will he come hack soon? I'm afraid not.
他很快就會回來嗎？恐怕不會。
This is no hack - and - slash, you win by creativity.
這不是砍砍殺殺的那種遊戲，你得動足腦筋才能取勝。
Can you hack it as a lumber jack?
你當伐木工人可以熬得住嗎？
You'd better hack off that branch that's hanging over the neighbour's garden.
你最好把懸到鄰居花園上的那根枝丫砍掉。
