saw at something phrasal verbphr v CUTto cut something with a repeated backwards and forwards movement 拉锯似的来回切 He sawed at the loaf with a blunt knife. 他用一把钝刀来回切面包。
saw at • He hated what he saw at Evanston.• I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners.• We had come into the kitchen, and I saw at once that nothing was as I had left it.• Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.• Sorry as he was, he saw at once that to refuse would give the whole thing away.• I saw at that moment how much Adler had helped her.• Despite what you saw at the club.• Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs.
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