cut off

切断；使隔绝；剪下

verb

1. cease, stop

e.g. cut the noise
We had to cut short the conversation

Synonym: cut

2. make a break in

e.g. We interrupt the program for the following messages

Synonym: interruptdisruptbreak up

3. remove surgically

e.g. amputate limbs

Synonym: amputate

4. break a small piece off from

e.g. chip the glass
chip a tooth

Synonym: chipknapbreak off

5. remove by or as if by cutting

e.g. cut off the ear
lop off the dead branch

Synonym: chop offlop off

6. cut off and stop

e.g. The bicyclist was cut out by the van

Synonym: cut out

adj

1. detached by cutting

e.g. cut flowers
a severed head
an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm

Synonym: severed

1.

She feels very cut off living in the country.(她住在乡间感到很闭塞。)

He had his finger cut off in an accident at work.(他在一次工伤中被切断了手指。)

If you should be fired, your health and pension benefits will not be automatically cut off.(如果你失业了，你的健康津贴和养老金将不会自动中断。)

When you do get through, you've got to speak quickly before you get cut off.(电话一接通，你得在通话中断前快点儿说。)

The electricity supply has been cut off at the mains.(电的供应在电源处被切断。)

The rebels have cut off electricity from the capital.(叛乱者已经切断了首都的电力。)

Soon, more of my right leg had to be cut off.(很快，我的右腿更多的部分不得不被切断。)

The town is without electricity and the water supply has been cut off.(这个镇上已经断电停水了。)

Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off.(与外国机构的联系被无情地切断了。)

We find ourselves cruelly cut off from the wireless world.(我们发现自己被无情地切断与无线世界的联系。)