Definition of slice in English:

slice

noun slʌɪsslaɪs

1A thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion.
（切下的）薄片
four slices of bread
四片面包。
potato slices
土豆片。
Example sentencesExamples
- On a sheet pan, place 12 slices of crusty bread and a small round of Brie.
- Put the garlic-scented slices of toasted bread on to a plate then drizzle olive oil over them.
- Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto.
- Set two slices of bread on top and drizzle with the remaining olive oil.
- We shared a slice of baked almond tart, served warm with cream and a jam-like fruity sauce.
- This hearty wedge of egg stuffed with thin slices of potato, red pepper, tomato and herbs on its own would be worth returning for.
- The only way it can be suitably prepared is by stir-frying thin slices of the meat with the skin attached at high temperature.
- Anyhow, this morning I wanted to have two slices of whole wheat bread with some strawberry jam for breakfast.
- The traditional way of eating Gentleman's Relish is on thin slices of buttered white bread toast, alone, with cucumber or with mustard and cress.
- On the rim of the sizeable bowl sat four thin slices of crisp French bread which we took at first to be garlic bread.
- While the mushrooms are cooking, toast the slices of bread.
- My fish was excellent, chips just right, as were the two thin slices of bread.
- Serve in a soup bowl, pouring the soup over slices of bread and topping with shredded Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and more ground pepper.
- She ate her breakfast which consisted of two thin slices of bread and a small cup of water.
- The dressing and accompaniments were exquisite and the slices of meat paper thin.
- Slap two slices of meat between two slices of bread - there's no easier way to build a sandwich.
- I add white wine, some onions and fennel, and then serve it whole on a long dish with mayonnaise, slices of lemon and basmati rice.
- The juicier the fruit the better, so best not use the thin slices of dried fruit such as mango or apple.
- Try to keep the slices of potatoes, onions and sausage roughly the same thickness.
- The pudding is made by lining a buttered basin with fairly thin slices of good bread cut to fit exactly.
Synonyms
piece, portion, wedge, chunk, hunk, lump, slab, segment
rasher, collop
sliver, wafer, shaving
helping
British round
Cookery escalope, scallop, scaloppina, fricandeau
British informal wodge
rare hunch
1. 1.1 A portion or share of something.
  部分；份
  local authorities control a huge slice of public spending
  地方当局控制着公共支出中很大一部分。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Let me share with you a slice of our conversation that we had over tea.
  A slice of ‘real’ life, walking down the street without being recognised is something that probably keeps Nagesh grounded.
  I think that Menzies was genuine and committed in his anti-Communism, and the element of spies and espionage was only a slice of that.
  The answer, he said, was to mass-produce a cheaper version and capture a slice of the huge mid-priced guitar market.
  Everybody from general assistants to stock controllers and delivery drivers enjoyed a slice of the profits.
  Depending on how lucky you felt, the taxman could either add his share to your initial stake or take a slice of your winnings.
  The electricity shop salesperson is highly unlikely to be an insurance expert, but will be very clued up on the commission to be made by offering you a slice of ‘peace of mind’.
  It showed in the contact situation, where Bedford just had the sharper hunger at the breakdown, and they were able to protect a hard-won lead with a slice of good fortune favouring them on the day.
  When we buy shares in a company we are acquiring a slice of a business, albeit a small one.
  He controls just a slice of the intelligence budget.
  A slice of humanity was extinguished in the process.
  It was felt by some that the rescue would have been acceptable if those who paid for it - including the state - received a slice of the bank's shares in return.
  Baseball is a slice of American life, and baseball people have historically taken risks and made sacrifices to defend America.
  Knowing all this, who's going to pay $5.25 a share for a slice of a declining business?
  Inland, vintage jeeps and other military vehicles wind their way through the meandering narrow lanes between the lush fields and gentle sand dunes as men and women try to recreate a slice of history.
  That's when companies were trying absolutely radical stuff to gain a slice of market share.
  All we are saying down there, as I understand it, is that you can't take a slice of it, recount it until it comes out your way, and then ignore the rest of the contest.
  Broadcasters received fixed-term, renewable licenses that gave them exclusive use of a slice of the spectrum for free.
  The ranch family that sold us a slice of its empire, huddled in the shadows of Black Mountain, had used this wetland for three generations as its own private dump.
  Now it is women who are pushing for a bigger share of family assets, and even looking for a slice of their husbands' future earnings after they have separated or signed off on a divorce agreement.
  Synonyms
  share, part, portion, tranche, piece, bit, parcel, proportion, allotment, allocation, percentage
  ration, quota
  informal cut, whack, rake-off
2A utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.
锅铲
Example sentencesExamples
- This fabulous musical cake slice is perfect for use over the festive period.
- The only trouble is, it seems to replace the white cake slice.
- I wiped me fingers gently down the rabbit's flank, then, shutting my eyes, I slid my hand beneath its limp head like a kitchen slice scooping up a burst pasty.
3Golf
A stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently.
〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球
Compare with hook
Example sentencesExamples
- The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook.
- If you don't add the wrist roll or release into your swing the face of the club at impact will stay open and cause a slice.
- Nevertheless he began cautiously, with a four-iron off the 1st tee, his mild slice finding the light rough on the right of the fairway.
- Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices.
- It can help players who hit weak fades or slices, enabling them to hit solid draws.
1. 3.1 (in sport) a shot or stroke made with glancing contact so that the ball travels forward spinning.
  （其他体育项目中的）斜切打；削球
  Example sentencesExamples
  I wanted to do everything at a slow tempo as I knew it is critical to having a solid slice at the ball.
  The final game particularly pleased her coach as Brown mixed up her game, throwing in a few slices and higher top-spun shots and letting Dalton force the pace and make the errors.
  Combining top spins, slices and net shots, she forced Tangphong to make a string of unforced errors, handing the Indonesian a crushing first set win.
  At the start, Graf had problems with the slice on the Davenport serve.
  The slice slows the ball's speed down giving you the time to get into a better position.

verb slʌɪsslaɪs

[with object]

1Cut (something, especially food) into slices.
把…切成（薄）片
slice the onion into rings
把洋葱切成一圈一圈。
Example sentencesExamples
- A two-inch cube of gratin dauphinois binds thinly sliced potatoes with heavy cream and butter, and makes an excellent foil for the bold beef.
- Tomatoes in some form - tomato sauce or paste or sliced tomatoes - are almost always part of a pizza and that's a good thing.
- Without sliced bread, you'd just get whole loaves handed to you.
- Breakfasts are typically Dutch, with lots of bread rolls, cheeses and sliced meats.
- The two cakes can be filled with whipped cream and sliced bananas.
- The soup arrived in a steaming tureen, accompanied by a separate plate full of tender pork, salted duck egg, crispy pak choi, sliced carrot and Chinese mushroom.
- As usual, my brothers and I ate like pigs, while our visitors ate and sliced their food incredibly slowly…
- The meat is sliced and served separately as a second course, accompanied by a salad or a vegetable.
- Just then, our elbows knocked into each other as he was slicing his food.
- You can add any sort of meat, sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, bacon, sausage or pineapple.
- Interestingly, our white sliced bread came with butter and a whole baked garlic bulb.
- He takes control of serving the food now, slicing the steaks into even, thin slices and arranging them on Olivia's plate.
- The pierna, thinly sliced pork stewed in a savory tomato-chile sauce, is also good.
- Berries are great sprinkled into yoghurt; raisins can be added to salads or try sliced apples in sandwiches.
- And, just to round it all off, I turned to and knocked us up a quick hash of potato, sliced apple and crisp lean bacon for supper.
- She was delighted with the lightly-toasted brown bread and thinly sliced grilled tomatoes.
- The potatoes are thinly sliced, mixed with garlic and cream and topped with grated cheese.
- Its warm creaminess qualifies oatmeal as a comfort food, and adding sliced strawberries or apple gives it an antioxidant punch.
- Meanwhile, mince the garlic, slice the onion, chop the green pepper and dice the eggplants into 2 cm cubes.
Synonyms
cut, cut up, carve, divide, segment, section
1. 1.1slice something off/from Cut something from (something larger) with a sharp implement.
  切开；划破
  he sliced a corner from a fried egg
  他从煎鸡蛋上切下一个角。
  figurative he sliced 70 seconds off the record
  〈喻〉他比纪录快了70秒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Someone busted his forehead open with a car stereo; another rioter tried to slice his ear off.
  The main summit is conical and smooth-sided; the top is sliced off like an egg.
  After slicing eight-seconds off her own world record, Chantel swam to Telstra Olympic Trials victory in the 400m freestyle multi disability event at the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
  What remains around the stone can be sliced off and then, as a last resort, gnawed with the teeth.
  The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
  I sliced the top off and told my girl to scoop out the seeds and flesh.
  The force sliced the roof off the car and catapulted Gail into the road.
  I just wanted to grab that huge knife out of her hand and show her how to chop an onion without slicing her fingers off.
  The key ingredient comes from a cruel practice: slicing the fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back in the ocean.
  As piglets, their tails are sliced off, their teeth are chipped, and then they're castrated - all without anaesthetic.
  I chopped at the onion, careful not to slice a finger off.
  The implement slices the tops off the grain hulls and then squeezes the pulp and kernels from the cob while leaving the hulls attached.
  ‘Disappointing’ results in January sliced a third off its shares.
  Bragadino's nose and ears were sliced off after he had watched his officers and staff being beheaded.
  She reached for her sword and held it behind her back and sliced her hair off right below her ears.
  ‘I smashed my face in the driving mirror, and my left eyelid was sliced off,’ she recalls.
  Take the fish and slice the fillets off them with a very sharp knife.
  If you aren't going to serve the fish whole, slice off the fins on both sides.
  And it felt like the top of my head had been sliced off.
  It will be worth slicing a bit off our up-front margin, if we retain all our customers.
  Synonyms
  cut off, sever, chop off, hack off, shear off
  separate
  rare dissever
2. 1.2 Cut with or as if with a sharp implement.
  切开；划破
  the bomber's wings were slicing the air with some efficiency
  轰炸机机翼快速划破长空。
  no object the blade sliced into his palm
  刀刃划破了他的手掌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The young woman was sliced from mouth to ear and has undergone surgery.
  With one furious move, Lynette took the sword in her own hand, she hardly felt the pain in her fingers as the sharp blade sliced through her palm.
  The attacker brought the knife up slicing John's throat in one quick motion.
  All was left now was a sharp fear that sliced her heart like a knife.
  Suddenly a shuddering blade of air slices it in half.
  They flew immaculately together, as if they were linked by a silver chain like swans in Irish folklore, the vast wings slicing the air without haste, and disappeared over the hill and far away.
  I threw myself to the ground as the four foot blades sliced the air over my head.
  Using a sharp knife, I slice each one diagonally, from just below the handle to the opposite corner of the base.
  The metal burs might be sharp enough to slice a good line across her throat.
  Sharp rocks sliced her bare feet as she tried to regain her balance.
  She heard the singing of a blade being drawn from its scabbard, and dropped into a crouch as said blade sliced the air above her head.
  Use a sharp knife to slice through the spear right at ground level.
  If you pick roses for a vase, use a sharp knife to slice the base of the stem, then crush the wound to aid water-absorption.
  When the head barista came out brandishing a long sharp knife to slice open the plastic all that was revealed was a pile of cardboard boxes of the catering kind.
  The truth was like a sharp knife and it sliced her heart with every word she uttered.
  He turned around, swinging his blade slicing the demon's throat open.
  As the blood returned to the ankle, it throbbed intensely, as if icy hot knives of pain were slicing his foot in half.
  As the sharp edge of the knife sliced his arm blood trickled out of his veins and dripped onto the floor.
  The blade catches a hair, pulls it up, and slices through it, after which the hair starts to retract.
  He leapt from the cab to confront the gang but one of the thieves pulled out a craft knife and proceeded to slice the driver with the blade a number of times.
3. 1.3no object, with adverbial of direction Move easily and quickly.
  轻松快捷地移动
  Grimsby sliced through Swindon's defence
  格林姆斯比轻松突破斯温顿的防线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The road slices through rolling mountain terrain covered in greenery.
  The second one didn't miss a beat, and quickly sliced downwards, narrowly missing me.
  I dropped the bait, and a grouper grabbed it and took it up the reef, where it was robbed by a shark that sliced easily through the string attaching the weight before making off with the bait.
  The crowd stood up so they could see the specks, combined into one, quickly slicing through the sky.
  It drew closer and closer, slicing effortlessly through the white tips of the ocean's surface, a foreboding indication of the powerful squalus approaching beneath.
  On downhill runs we would slice past the bellowing Buran, sometimes startling a snowy arctic hare as we rounded a bend.
  Vorath led the first lap, but Nelson sliced past for the lead on lap two.
  The majestic wooden craft sliced easily through the water as she paddled.
  It was a tremendous machine. It moved gracefully, slicing through the water as if it existed simply for the service of this craft alone.
  The harsh winter winds were slicing past them and it felt like it was tearing their skin.
  The weapon's tip easily sliced through the water, but what followed was no ordinary feat.
  But even today, the sight of its rear grille slicing past you in the fast lane or cutting you up on a roundabout can induce a nostalgic burst of bitterness and resentment in other road users.
  A flowing move involving the whole back line sliced through the Bank defence leaving Clark to beat the last man for the try.
  I tacked upwind a few hundred yards and began slicing down the smooth, right-breaking faces, trying to stay focused on the sharp coral just below the surface.
  Those razor sharp hips sliced the air as he moved in time to the music.
  From there it's all singletrack slicing through cornfields and avocado and coffee plantations seemingly glued to the sides of steep slopes.
  In astronomical parlance, the comet which was slicing through Pisces and heading for the sun, has reached the ‘perihelion’ now.
  I could almost feel the waves against my skin, the power of the Titanic as it sliced through the water easily.
  Two blades sliced past his head from behind as Shushuka again landed stealthily, but not so quietly this time.
  The drive then takes us over increasingly bleak countryside, slicing through dense birch forest and peaty bog, all snow bleached and windswept by the looming power of Lake Superior.
2Golf
Strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left)
〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球
Duval sliced his ball into the water to the right of the green
Example sentencesExamples
- A golfer badly slices a golf ball, which heads toward the rough, but then bounces off a tree and into the cup for a hole in one.
- If you're topping or slicing the ball, the problem could be your knees.
- If you tend to slice the ball, I recommend that you tee it a little higher when hitting a driver or low-lofted metal wood.
- After slicing his tee ball into the trees at 18, he pitched out and barely sneaked a six-foot bogey putt in the side door.
- If you slice the ball, you should establish more generous limits.
1. 2.1 (in sport) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact so that it travels forward spinning.
  （其他体育项目中的）斜切打；削球
  Evans went and sliced a corner into his own net
  埃文斯迎上去一脚让角球斜飞入己方网内。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He only succeeded in slicing the ball and it looped over his own keeper Aaron Brian.
  The home side edged in front on 25 minutes when Yury Kovtun sliced an attempted cross from the left and saw his effort creep into the corner of Radovan Radacovic's goal.
  He can hit line drives or slice the ball to the opposite field.
  As he twisted and turned, feinted, dummied and sliced the ball off his boot with the greatest of ease, no one seemed capable of touching him.
  The ball doesn't go safe, but Wise does Paraguay's job for them by ridiculously slicing the loose ball into the side netting.

Phrases

any way (or however) you slice it

informal However you look at the matter.
the news is not good any way you slice it
Example sentencesExamples
- However you slice it, high school children also need to learn to read and write in foreign languages.
- This is a positive report any way you slice it.
- Our numbers by design were conservative, but any way you slice it, this bill is great for New York.
- However you slice it, there is a challenge to our government.
- However you slice it, consumers love topping their gourmet pizza off with a gourmet beverage.
- Any way you slice it, the film is still just shy of becoming mind-numbingly dull.

slice and dice

Divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyse it more closely or in different ways.
Example sentencesExamples
- But some interesting things happened when I sliced and diced the data further.
- You can slice and dice the news any way you like.
- Late today, Senate Democrats announced plans to slice and dice the president's budget, which is his top priority.
- It should also be able to generate serial numbers, perform revision control, and slice and dice the captured data every which way you chose - on demand.
- Once the assembled reporters and pundits had finished slicing and dicing the speech, I thought, I would have my cartoon for the night.
- But this way of slicing and dicing the numbers seems inherently misleading.
- Last summer, McCormick & Co. controller Ken Kelly sliced and diced his financial statements in ways he had never before imagined.
- The site slices and dices crime information in a ton of different ways, complete with a wide assortment of Google Maps.
- The categories can be sliced and diced indefinitely, creating a dazzling array of permutations.
- Today, data can be sliced and diced at lightening speeds and updated just as quickly.

a slice of life

A realistic representation of everyday experience in a film, play, or book.
（电影、戏剧或书中）现实生活的真实片断
it's a slice of life and I hope you found it interesting
Example sentencesExamples
- With his impeccable writing and subtle direction, Yang has created a remarkable, realistic slice of life that almost needs to be seen two or three times to fully comprehend everything that happens.
- But her Justine grounds the movie too much, keeping it an everyday slice of life when it could become a work of unbridled operatic brilliance.
- It's an engaging slice of life and a rare example of a disaster film that doesn't rely on special effects.
- Our voyeuristic tendencies are fed generously as the film shows us a slice of life that is both fascinating and horrible to watch.
- The story is part coming of age film, and part slice of life.
- This film presents a compelling slice of life whilst interrogating with extraordinary discipline the formal predicates which encase both the film and its protagonist.
- It's a little slice of life in a gathering of the mundane items of everyday existence.
- The play thus falters in its attempt to be a real and funny slice of life, scrambling to make colloquial its many screeds on life and love in the ‘burbs.
- More times than not the film succeeds as a tough, tender, comic slice of life.
- The film gets points for highlighting a decidedly unique slice of life, presenting it well, and trying to impart something fresh and original.

Derivatives

sliceable

adjective

Of course, the sliceable sauce is also suitable as ready-made sauce upon convenience products.
Example sentencesExamples
- Epidemiologic data indicate that precooked, sliceable turkey deli meat is the cause of this outbreak.
- In general terms hot smoked fish is flaky whilst cold smoked fish is firmer and sliceable.
- She also continues to make jobne, a homemade cow's milk cheese served as a fresh spreadable cheese and as a sliceable aged cheese.
- If you've never had them and are curious, consider a pot of split pea soup boiled down until sliceable, and you're about there.

slicer

noun ˈslʌɪsəˈslaɪsər

often in combination a bacon-slicer
Example sentencesExamples
- Featuring old-style scales, bacon slicers and a coffee-grinder, it was a haven of personal service, with everything cut, weighed and wrapped with care.
- Last week, I cut my finger quite deeply while I was cleaning one of the food slicers.
- I believe that slicers tend to try and hit the ball in the downswing with their shoulders and body, rather than the club head itself.
- The garden also contains a vintage mechanical washing machine as well as antique ploughs, mangles and bacon slicers.
- This is a high-tech facility purpose-built to turn clumsy slicers into golfing ninjas.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'fragment, splinter'): shortening of Old French esclice 'splinter', from the verb esclicier, of Germanic origin; related to German schleissen 'to slice', also to slit.

slate from Middle English:
This is from the Old French esclat ‘a piece broken off’. Slat (Late Middle English) is a variant which meant ‘roofing slate’ until it developed the current sense in the mid 18th century. Schoolchildren formerly used flat pieces of slate for writing on in chalk, and shops and bars used the same materials for keeping a record of what a customer owed. This is the origin of the expression on the slate, ‘to be paid for later, on credit’. The related French esclice ‘splinter’ gives us slice (Middle English) and their common Germanic source also gives us slit (Old English). In the sense ‘to criticize’, dating from the mid 19th century, slate is probably a different word. It might derive from the slightly earlier Irish sense ‘to beat, beat up’ and be related to a Scots use of slate meaning ‘to set a dog on’, which is from Old Norse.

Rhymes

advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, price, rice, sice, speiss, spice, splice, suffice, syce, thrice, top-slice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss

Definition of slice in US English:

slice

nounslaɪsslīs

1A thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion.
（切下的）薄片
four slices of bread
四片面包。
potato slices
土豆片。
Example sentencesExamples
- Anyhow, this morning I wanted to have two slices of whole wheat bread with some strawberry jam for breakfast.
- Try to keep the slices of potatoes, onions and sausage roughly the same thickness.
- On the rim of the sizeable bowl sat four thin slices of crisp French bread which we took at first to be garlic bread.
- She ate her breakfast which consisted of two thin slices of bread and a small cup of water.
- The traditional way of eating Gentleman's Relish is on thin slices of buttered white bread toast, alone, with cucumber or with mustard and cress.
- This hearty wedge of egg stuffed with thin slices of potato, red pepper, tomato and herbs on its own would be worth returning for.
- My fish was excellent, chips just right, as were the two thin slices of bread.
- I add white wine, some onions and fennel, and then serve it whole on a long dish with mayonnaise, slices of lemon and basmati rice.
- The dressing and accompaniments were exquisite and the slices of meat paper thin.
- While the mushrooms are cooking, toast the slices of bread.
- We shared a slice of baked almond tart, served warm with cream and a jam-like fruity sauce.
- On a sheet pan, place 12 slices of crusty bread and a small round of Brie.
- The only way it can be suitably prepared is by stir-frying thin slices of the meat with the skin attached at high temperature.
- Put the garlic-scented slices of toasted bread on to a plate then drizzle olive oil over them.
- Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto.
- Set two slices of bread on top and drizzle with the remaining olive oil.
- The pudding is made by lining a buttered basin with fairly thin slices of good bread cut to fit exactly.
- The juicier the fruit the better, so best not use the thin slices of dried fruit such as mango or apple.
- Serve in a soup bowl, pouring the soup over slices of bread and topping with shredded Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and more ground pepper.
- Slap two slices of meat between two slices of bread - there's no easier way to build a sandwich.
Synonyms
piece, portion, wedge, chunk, hunk, lump, slab, segment
1. 1.1 A single serving of pizza, typically one eighth of a pie.
  every payday we'd meet at Vinnie's for a beer and a couple of slices
  Example sentencesExamples
  We found an authentic Italian pizza joint that sold slices by the kilo.
  We're in front of a pizza joint now. He orders the steak bomb, I get a slice.
  He bit into his pizza slice.
  In Japan, folks stop by their local sobaya for a dish of plump buckwheat soba noodles, the way New Yorkers pick up a slice.
  Have you found a great place to get a slice?
  Eve took three pizza slices and put them daintily on her plate.
  Fortunately, there are a few ways you can cut the fat and still let your kids enjoy a pizza slice or two.
2. 1.2 A portion or share of something.
  部分；份
  local authorities control a huge slice of public spending
  地方当局控制着公共支出中很大一部分。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ranch family that sold us a slice of its empire, huddled in the shadows of Black Mountain, had used this wetland for three generations as its own private dump.
  Everybody from general assistants to stock controllers and delivery drivers enjoyed a slice of the profits.
  Baseball is a slice of American life, and baseball people have historically taken risks and made sacrifices to defend America.
  That's when companies were trying absolutely radical stuff to gain a slice of market share.
  The answer, he said, was to mass-produce a cheaper version and capture a slice of the huge mid-priced guitar market.
  Knowing all this, who's going to pay $5.25 a share for a slice of a declining business?
  It showed in the contact situation, where Bedford just had the sharper hunger at the breakdown, and they were able to protect a hard-won lead with a slice of good fortune favouring them on the day.
  I think that Menzies was genuine and committed in his anti-Communism, and the element of spies and espionage was only a slice of that.
  All we are saying down there, as I understand it, is that you can't take a slice of it, recount it until it comes out your way, and then ignore the rest of the contest.
  Broadcasters received fixed-term, renewable licenses that gave them exclusive use of a slice of the spectrum for free.
  The electricity shop salesperson is highly unlikely to be an insurance expert, but will be very clued up on the commission to be made by offering you a slice of ‘peace of mind’.
  Now it is women who are pushing for a bigger share of family assets, and even looking for a slice of their husbands' future earnings after they have separated or signed off on a divorce agreement.
  Depending on how lucky you felt, the taxman could either add his share to your initial stake or take a slice of your winnings.
  Let me share with you a slice of our conversation that we had over tea.
  It was felt by some that the rescue would have been acceptable if those who paid for it - including the state - received a slice of the bank's shares in return.
  A slice of humanity was extinguished in the process.
  He controls just a slice of the intelligence budget.
  Inland, vintage jeeps and other military vehicles wind their way through the meandering narrow lanes between the lush fields and gentle sand dunes as men and women try to recreate a slice of history.
  A slice of ‘real’ life, walking down the street without being recognised is something that probably keeps Nagesh grounded.
  When we buy shares in a company we are acquiring a slice of a business, albeit a small one.
  Synonyms
  share, part, portion, tranche, piece, bit, parcel, proportion, allotment, allocation, percentage
2A utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.
锅铲
Example sentencesExamples
- The only trouble is, it seems to replace the white cake slice.
- I wiped me fingers gently down the rabbit's flank, then, shutting my eyes, I slid my hand beneath its limp head like a kitchen slice scooping up a burst pasty.
- This fabulous musical cake slice is perfect for use over the festive period.
3Golf
A stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently.
〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球
Compare with hook
Example sentencesExamples
- Nevertheless he began cautiously, with a four-iron off the 1st tee, his mild slice finding the light rough on the right of the fairway.
- If you don't add the wrist roll or release into your swing the face of the club at impact will stay open and cause a slice.
- It can help players who hit weak fades or slices, enabling them to hit solid draws.
- Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices.
- The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook.
1. 3.1 (in sports) a shot or stroke made with glancing contact to impart spin.
  （其他体育项目中的）斜切打；削球
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the start, Graf had problems with the slice on the Davenport serve.
  Combining top spins, slices and net shots, she forced Tangphong to make a string of unforced errors, handing the Indonesian a crushing first set win.
  I wanted to do everything at a slow tempo as I knew it is critical to having a solid slice at the ball.
  The slice slows the ball's speed down giving you the time to get into a better position.
  The final game particularly pleased her coach as Brown mixed up her game, throwing in a few slices and higher top-spun shots and letting Dalton force the pace and make the errors.

verbslaɪsslīs

[with object]

1Cut (something, especially food) into slices.
把…切成（薄）片
slice the onion into rings
把洋葱切成一圈一圈。
Example sentencesExamples
- The potatoes are thinly sliced, mixed with garlic and cream and topped with grated cheese.
- As usual, my brothers and I ate like pigs, while our visitors ate and sliced their food incredibly slowly…
- The soup arrived in a steaming tureen, accompanied by a separate plate full of tender pork, salted duck egg, crispy pak choi, sliced carrot and Chinese mushroom.
- Tomatoes in some form - tomato sauce or paste or sliced tomatoes - are almost always part of a pizza and that's a good thing.
- Breakfasts are typically Dutch, with lots of bread rolls, cheeses and sliced meats.
- Without sliced bread, you'd just get whole loaves handed to you.
- Interestingly, our white sliced bread came with butter and a whole baked garlic bulb.
- A two-inch cube of gratin dauphinois binds thinly sliced potatoes with heavy cream and butter, and makes an excellent foil for the bold beef.
- He takes control of serving the food now, slicing the steaks into even, thin slices and arranging them on Olivia's plate.
- The meat is sliced and served separately as a second course, accompanied by a salad or a vegetable.
- The pierna, thinly sliced pork stewed in a savory tomato-chile sauce, is also good.
- Berries are great sprinkled into yoghurt; raisins can be added to salads or try sliced apples in sandwiches.
- She was delighted with the lightly-toasted brown bread and thinly sliced grilled tomatoes.
- Just then, our elbows knocked into each other as he was slicing his food.
- And, just to round it all off, I turned to and knocked us up a quick hash of potato, sliced apple and crisp lean bacon for supper.
- You can add any sort of meat, sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, bacon, sausage or pineapple.
- The two cakes can be filled with whipped cream and sliced bananas.
- Its warm creaminess qualifies oatmeal as a comfort food, and adding sliced strawberries or apple gives it an antioxidant punch.
- Meanwhile, mince the garlic, slice the onion, chop the green pepper and dice the eggplants into 2 cm cubes.
Synonyms
cut, cut up, carve, divide, segment, section
1. 1.1slice something off/from Cut something from (something larger) with a sharp implement.
  切开；划破
  he sliced a corner from a fried egg
  他从煎鸡蛋上切下一个角。
  figurative he sliced 70 seconds off the record
  〈喻〉他比纪录快了70秒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The main summit is conical and smooth-sided; the top is sliced off like an egg.
  The key ingredient comes from a cruel practice: slicing the fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back in the ocean.
  I sliced the top off and told my girl to scoop out the seeds and flesh.
  Someone busted his forehead open with a car stereo; another rioter tried to slice his ear off.
  I just wanted to grab that huge knife out of her hand and show her how to chop an onion without slicing her fingers off.
  What remains around the stone can be sliced off and then, as a last resort, gnawed with the teeth.
  After slicing eight-seconds off her own world record, Chantel swam to Telstra Olympic Trials victory in the 400m freestyle multi disability event at the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
  ‘Disappointing’ results in January sliced a third off its shares.
  Bragadino's nose and ears were sliced off after he had watched his officers and staff being beheaded.
  The implement slices the tops off the grain hulls and then squeezes the pulp and kernels from the cob while leaving the hulls attached.
  ‘I smashed my face in the driving mirror, and my left eyelid was sliced off,’ she recalls.
  And it felt like the top of my head had been sliced off.
  Take the fish and slice the fillets off them with a very sharp knife.
  As piglets, their tails are sliced off, their teeth are chipped, and then they're castrated - all without anaesthetic.
  She reached for her sword and held it behind her back and sliced her hair off right below her ears.
  The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
  The force sliced the roof off the car and catapulted Gail into the road.
  If you aren't going to serve the fish whole, slice off the fins on both sides.
  It will be worth slicing a bit off our up-front margin, if we retain all our customers.
  I chopped at the onion, careful not to slice a finger off.
  Synonyms
  cut off, sever, chop off, hack off, shear off
2. 1.2 Cut with or as if with a sharp implement.
  切开；划破
  the bomber's wings were slicing the air with some efficiency
  轰炸机机翼快速划破长空。
  no object the blade sliced into his palm
  刀刃划破了他的手掌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the sharp edge of the knife sliced his arm blood trickled out of his veins and dripped onto the floor.
  When the head barista came out brandishing a long sharp knife to slice open the plastic all that was revealed was a pile of cardboard boxes of the catering kind.
  With one furious move, Lynette took the sword in her own hand, she hardly felt the pain in her fingers as the sharp blade sliced through her palm.
  She heard the singing of a blade being drawn from its scabbard, and dropped into a crouch as said blade sliced the air above her head.
  They flew immaculately together, as if they were linked by a silver chain like swans in Irish folklore, the vast wings slicing the air without haste, and disappeared over the hill and far away.
  All was left now was a sharp fear that sliced her heart like a knife.
  As the blood returned to the ankle, it throbbed intensely, as if icy hot knives of pain were slicing his foot in half.
  Use a sharp knife to slice through the spear right at ground level.
  The truth was like a sharp knife and it sliced her heart with every word she uttered.
  The young woman was sliced from mouth to ear and has undergone surgery.
  He leapt from the cab to confront the gang but one of the thieves pulled out a craft knife and proceeded to slice the driver with the blade a number of times.
  Sharp rocks sliced her bare feet as she tried to regain her balance.
  If you pick roses for a vase, use a sharp knife to slice the base of the stem, then crush the wound to aid water-absorption.
  Suddenly a shuddering blade of air slices it in half.
  He turned around, swinging his blade slicing the demon's throat open.
  I threw myself to the ground as the four foot blades sliced the air over my head.
  The blade catches a hair, pulls it up, and slices through it, after which the hair starts to retract.
  The attacker brought the knife up slicing John's throat in one quick motion.
  Using a sharp knife, I slice each one diagonally, from just below the handle to the opposite corner of the base.
  The metal burs might be sharp enough to slice a good line across her throat.
3. 1.3no object, with adverbial of direction Move easily and quickly.
  轻松快捷地移动
  Senna then sliced past Berger to take third place
  Example sentencesExamples
  I tacked upwind a few hundred yards and began slicing down the smooth, right-breaking faces, trying to stay focused on the sharp coral just below the surface.
  The weapon's tip easily sliced through the water, but what followed was no ordinary feat.
  On downhill runs we would slice past the bellowing Buran, sometimes startling a snowy arctic hare as we rounded a bend.
  It was a tremendous machine. It moved gracefully, slicing through the water as if it existed simply for the service of this craft alone.
  Two blades sliced past his head from behind as Shushuka again landed stealthily, but not so quietly this time.
  I could almost feel the waves against my skin, the power of the Titanic as it sliced through the water easily.
  The drive then takes us over increasingly bleak countryside, slicing through dense birch forest and peaty bog, all snow bleached and windswept by the looming power of Lake Superior.
  I dropped the bait, and a grouper grabbed it and took it up the reef, where it was robbed by a shark that sliced easily through the string attaching the weight before making off with the bait.
  But even today, the sight of its rear grille slicing past you in the fast lane or cutting you up on a roundabout can induce a nostalgic burst of bitterness and resentment in other road users.
  In astronomical parlance, the comet which was slicing through Pisces and heading for the sun, has reached the ‘perihelion’ now.
  The harsh winter winds were slicing past them and it felt like it was tearing their skin.
  It drew closer and closer, slicing effortlessly through the white tips of the ocean's surface, a foreboding indication of the powerful squalus approaching beneath.
  The crowd stood up so they could see the specks, combined into one, quickly slicing through the sky.
  A flowing move involving the whole back line sliced through the Bank defence leaving Clark to beat the last man for the try.
  From there it's all singletrack slicing through cornfields and avocado and coffee plantations seemingly glued to the sides of steep slopes.
  The road slices through rolling mountain terrain covered in greenery.
  Vorath led the first lap, but Nelson sliced past for the lead on lap two.
  Those razor sharp hips sliced the air as he moved in time to the music.
  The second one didn't miss a beat, and quickly sliced downwards, narrowly missing me.
  The majestic wooden craft sliced easily through the water as she paddled.
2Golf
Strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently.
〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球
Example sentencesExamples
- If you tend to slice the ball, I recommend that you tee it a little higher when hitting a driver or low-lofted metal wood.
- If you slice the ball, you should establish more generous limits.
- After slicing his tee ball into the trees at 18, he pitched out and barely sneaked a six-foot bogey putt in the side door.
- If you're topping or slicing the ball, the problem could be your knees.
- A golfer badly slices a golf ball, which heads toward the rough, but then bounces off a tree and into the cup for a hole in one.
1. 2.1 (in sports) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact to impart spin.
  （其他体育项目）打削球；打斜切球
  Evans went and sliced a corner into his own net
  埃文斯迎上去一脚让角球斜飞入己方网内。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He can hit line drives or slice the ball to the opposite field.
  He only succeeded in slicing the ball and it looped over his own keeper Aaron Brian.
  As he twisted and turned, feinted, dummied and sliced the ball off his boot with the greatest of ease, no one seemed capable of touching him.
  The ball doesn't go safe, but Wise does Paraguay's job for them by ridiculously slicing the loose ball into the side netting.
  The home side edged in front on 25 minutes when Yury Kovtun sliced an attempted cross from the left and saw his effort creep into the corner of Radovan Radacovic's goal.

Phrases

slice and dice

Divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyze it more closely or in different ways.
each network has analysis teams that slice and dice the exit poll information to find a conclusion
Example sentencesExamples
- But this way of slicing and dicing the numbers seems inherently misleading.
- Late today, Senate Democrats announced plans to slice and dice the president's budget, which is his top priority.
- It should also be able to generate serial numbers, perform revision control, and slice and dice the captured data every which way you chose - on demand.
- Once the assembled reporters and pundits had finished slicing and dicing the speech, I thought, I would have my cartoon for the night.
- Last summer, McCormick & Co. controller Ken Kelly sliced and diced his financial statements in ways he had never before imagined.
- The site slices and dices crime information in a ton of different ways, complete with a wide assortment of Google Maps.
- The categories can be sliced and diced indefinitely, creating a dazzling array of permutations.
- You can slice and dice the news any way you like.
- Today, data can be sliced and diced at lightening speeds and updated just as quickly.
- But some interesting things happened when I sliced and diced the data further.

slice of life

A realistic representation of everyday experience in a movie, play, or book.
（电影、戏剧或书中）现实生活的真实片断
Example sentencesExamples
- The play thus falters in its attempt to be a real and funny slice of life, scrambling to make colloquial its many screeds on life and love in the ‘burbs.
- This film presents a compelling slice of life whilst interrogating with extraordinary discipline the formal predicates which encase both the film and its protagonist.
- With his impeccable writing and subtle direction, Yang has created a remarkable, realistic slice of life that almost needs to be seen two or three times to fully comprehend everything that happens.
- But her Justine grounds the movie too much, keeping it an everyday slice of life when it could become a work of unbridled operatic brilliance.
- Our voyeuristic tendencies are fed generously as the film shows us a slice of life that is both fascinating and horrible to watch.
- The film gets points for highlighting a decidedly unique slice of life, presenting it well, and trying to impart something fresh and original.
- It's an engaging slice of life and a rare example of a disaster film that doesn't rely on special effects.
- More times than not the film succeeds as a tough, tender, comic slice of life.
- The story is part coming of age film, and part slice of life.
- It's a little slice of life in a gathering of the mundane items of everyday existence.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘fragment, splinter’): shortening of Old French esclice ‘splinter’, from the verb esclicier, of Germanic origin; related to German schleissen ‘to slice’, also to slit.

单词	slice
释义	Definition of slice in English: slice noun slʌɪsslaɪs 1A thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion. （切下的）薄片 four slices of bread 四片面包。 potato slices 土豆片。 Example sentencesExamples On a sheet pan, place 12 slices of crusty bread and a small round of Brie. Put the garlic-scented slices of toasted bread on to a plate then drizzle olive oil over them. Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto. Set two slices of bread on top and drizzle with the remaining olive oil. We shared a slice of baked almond tart, served warm with cream and a jam-like fruity sauce. This hearty wedge of egg stuffed with thin slices of potato, red pepper, tomato and herbs on its own would be worth returning for. The only way it can be suitably prepared is by stir-frying thin slices of the meat with the skin attached at high temperature. Anyhow, this morning I wanted to have two slices of whole wheat bread with some strawberry jam for breakfast. The traditional way of eating Gentleman's Relish is on thin slices of buttered white bread toast, alone, with cucumber or with mustard and cress. On the rim of the sizeable bowl sat four thin slices of crisp French bread which we took at first to be garlic bread. While the mushrooms are cooking, toast the slices of bread. My fish was excellent, chips just right, as were the two thin slices of bread. Serve in a soup bowl, pouring the soup over slices of bread and topping with shredded Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and more ground pepper. She ate her breakfast which consisted of two thin slices of bread and a small cup of water. The dressing and accompaniments were exquisite and the slices of meat paper thin. Slap two slices of meat between two slices of bread - there's no easier way to build a sandwich. I add white wine, some onions and fennel, and then serve it whole on a long dish with mayonnaise, slices of lemon and basmati rice. The juicier the fruit the better, so best not use the thin slices of dried fruit such as mango or apple. Try to keep the slices of potatoes, onions and sausage roughly the same thickness. The pudding is made by lining a buttered basin with fairly thin slices of good bread cut to fit exactly. Synonyms piece, portion, wedge, chunk, hunk, lump, slab, segment rasher, collop sliver, wafer, shaving helping British round Cookery escalope, scallop, scaloppina, fricandeau British informal wodge rare hunch 1.1 A portion or share of something. 部分；份 local authorities control a huge slice of public spending 地方当局控制着公共支出中很大一部分。 Example sentencesExamples Let me share with you a slice of our conversation that we had over tea. A slice of ‘real’ life, walking down the street without being recognised is something that probably keeps Nagesh grounded. I think that Menzies was genuine and committed in his anti-Communism, and the element of spies and espionage was only a slice of that. The answer, he said, was to mass-produce a cheaper version and capture a slice of the huge mid-priced guitar market. Everybody from general assistants to stock controllers and delivery drivers enjoyed a slice of the profits. Depending on how lucky you felt, the taxman could either add his share to your initial stake or take a slice of your winnings. The electricity shop salesperson is highly unlikely to be an insurance expert, but will be very clued up on the commission to be made by offering you a slice of ‘peace of mind’. It showed in the contact situation, where Bedford just had the sharper hunger at the breakdown, and they were able to protect a hard-won lead with a slice of good fortune favouring them on the day. When we buy shares in a company we are acquiring a slice of a business, albeit a small one. He controls just a slice of the intelligence budget. A slice of humanity was extinguished in the process. It was felt by some that the rescue would have been acceptable if those who paid for it - including the state - received a slice of the bank's shares in return. Baseball is a slice of American life, and baseball people have historically taken risks and made sacrifices to defend America. Knowing all this, who's going to pay $5.25 a share for a slice of a declining business? Inland, vintage jeeps and other military vehicles wind their way through the meandering narrow lanes between the lush fields and gentle sand dunes as men and women try to recreate a slice of history. That's when companies were trying absolutely radical stuff to gain a slice of market share. All we are saying down there, as I understand it, is that you can't take a slice of it, recount it until it comes out your way, and then ignore the rest of the contest. Broadcasters received fixed-term, renewable licenses that gave them exclusive use of a slice of the spectrum for free. The ranch family that sold us a slice of its empire, huddled in the shadows of Black Mountain, had used this wetland for three generations as its own private dump. Now it is women who are pushing for a bigger share of family assets, and even looking for a slice of their husbands' future earnings after they have separated or signed off on a divorce agreement. Synonyms share, part, portion, tranche, piece, bit, parcel, proportion, allotment, allocation, percentage ration, quota informal cut, whack, rake-off 2A utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish. 锅铲 Example sentencesExamples This fabulous musical cake slice is perfect for use over the festive period. The only trouble is, it seems to replace the white cake slice. I wiped me fingers gently down the rabbit's flank, then, shutting my eyes, I slid my hand beneath its limp head like a kitchen slice scooping up a burst pasty. 3Golf A stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently. 〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球 Compare with hook Example sentencesExamples The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook. If you don't add the wrist roll or release into your swing the face of the club at impact will stay open and cause a slice. Nevertheless he began cautiously, with a four-iron off the 1st tee, his mild slice finding the light rough on the right of the fairway. Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices. It can help players who hit weak fades or slices, enabling them to hit solid draws. 3.1 (in sport) a shot or stroke made with glancing contact so that the ball travels forward spinning. （其他体育项目中的）斜切打；削球 Example sentencesExamples I wanted to do everything at a slow tempo as I knew it is critical to having a solid slice at the ball. The final game particularly pleased her coach as Brown mixed up her game, throwing in a few slices and higher top-spun shots and letting Dalton force the pace and make the errors. Combining top spins, slices and net shots, she forced Tangphong to make a string of unforced errors, handing the Indonesian a crushing first set win. At the start, Graf had problems with the slice on the Davenport serve. The slice slows the ball's speed down giving you the time to get into a better position. verb slʌɪsslaɪs [with object] 1Cut (something, especially food) into slices. 把…切成（薄）片 slice the onion into rings 把洋葱切成一圈一圈。 Example sentencesExamples A two-inch cube of gratin dauphinois binds thinly sliced potatoes with heavy cream and butter, and makes an excellent foil for the bold beef. Tomatoes in some form - tomato sauce or paste or sliced tomatoes - are almost always part of a pizza and that's a good thing. Without sliced bread, you'd just get whole loaves handed to you. Breakfasts are typically Dutch, with lots of bread rolls, cheeses and sliced meats. The two cakes can be filled with whipped cream and sliced bananas. The soup arrived in a steaming tureen, accompanied by a separate plate full of tender pork, salted duck egg, crispy pak choi, sliced carrot and Chinese mushroom. As usual, my brothers and I ate like pigs, while our visitors ate and sliced their food incredibly slowly… The meat is sliced and served separately as a second course, accompanied by a salad or a vegetable. Just then, our elbows knocked into each other as he was slicing his food. You can add any sort of meat, sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, bacon, sausage or pineapple. Interestingly, our white sliced bread came with butter and a whole baked garlic bulb. He takes control of serving the food now, slicing the steaks into even, thin slices and arranging them on Olivia's plate. The pierna, thinly sliced pork stewed in a savory tomato-chile sauce, is also good. Berries are great sprinkled into yoghurt; raisins can be added to salads or try sliced apples in sandwiches. And, just to round it all off, I turned to and knocked us up a quick hash of potato, sliced apple and crisp lean bacon for supper. She was delighted with the lightly-toasted brown bread and thinly sliced grilled tomatoes. The potatoes are thinly sliced, mixed with garlic and cream and topped with grated cheese. Its warm creaminess qualifies oatmeal as a comfort food, and adding sliced strawberries or apple gives it an antioxidant punch. Meanwhile, mince the garlic, slice the onion, chop the green pepper and dice the eggplants into 2 cm cubes. Synonyms cut, cut up, carve, divide, segment, section 1.1slice something off/from Cut something from (something larger) with a sharp implement. 切开；划破 he sliced a corner from a fried egg 他从煎鸡蛋上切下一个角。 figurative he sliced 70 seconds off the record 〈喻〉他比纪录快了70秒。 Example sentencesExamples Someone busted his forehead open with a car stereo; another rioter tried to slice his ear off. The main summit is conical and smooth-sided; the top is sliced off like an egg. After slicing eight-seconds off her own world record, Chantel swam to Telstra Olympic Trials victory in the 400m freestyle multi disability event at the Sydney Aquatic Centre. What remains around the stone can be sliced off and then, as a last resort, gnawed with the teeth. The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft. I sliced the top off and told my girl to scoop out the seeds and flesh. The force sliced the roof off the car and catapulted Gail into the road. I just wanted to grab that huge knife out of her hand and show her how to chop an onion without slicing her fingers off. The key ingredient comes from a cruel practice: slicing the fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back in the ocean. As piglets, their tails are sliced off, their teeth are chipped, and then they're castrated - all without anaesthetic. I chopped at the onion, careful not to slice a finger off. The implement slices the tops off the grain hulls and then squeezes the pulp and kernels from the cob while leaving the hulls attached. ‘Disappointing’ results in January sliced a third off its shares. Bragadino's nose and ears were sliced off after he had watched his officers and staff being beheaded. She reached for her sword and held it behind her back and sliced her hair off right below her ears. ‘I smashed my face in the driving mirror, and my left eyelid was sliced off,’ she recalls. Take the fish and slice the fillets off them with a very sharp knife. If you aren't going to serve the fish whole, slice off the fins on both sides. And it felt like the top of my head had been sliced off. It will be worth slicing a bit off our up-front margin, if we retain all our customers. Synonyms cut off, sever, chop off, hack off, shear off separate rare dissever 1.2 Cut with or as if with a sharp implement. 切开；划破 the bomber's wings were slicing the air with some efficiency 轰炸机机翼快速划破长空。 no object the blade sliced into his palm 刀刃划破了他的手掌。 Example sentencesExamples The young woman was sliced from mouth to ear and has undergone surgery. With one furious move, Lynette took the sword in her own hand, she hardly felt the pain in her fingers as the sharp blade sliced through her palm. The attacker brought the knife up slicing John's throat in one quick motion. All was left now was a sharp fear that sliced her heart like a knife. Suddenly a shuddering blade of air slices it in half. They flew immaculately together, as if they were linked by a silver chain like swans in Irish folklore, the vast wings slicing the air without haste, and disappeared over the hill and far away. I threw myself to the ground as the four foot blades sliced the air over my head. Using a sharp knife, I slice each one diagonally, from just below the handle to the opposite corner of the base. The metal burs might be sharp enough to slice a good line across her throat. Sharp rocks sliced her bare feet as she tried to regain her balance. She heard the singing of a blade being drawn from its scabbard, and dropped into a crouch as said blade sliced the air above her head. Use a sharp knife to slice through the spear right at ground level. If you pick roses for a vase, use a sharp knife to slice the base of the stem, then crush the wound to aid water-absorption. When the head barista came out brandishing a long sharp knife to slice open the plastic all that was revealed was a pile of cardboard boxes of the catering kind. The truth was like a sharp knife and it sliced her heart with every word she uttered. He turned around, swinging his blade slicing the demon's throat open. As the blood returned to the ankle, it throbbed intensely, as if icy hot knives of pain were slicing his foot in half. As the sharp edge of the knife sliced his arm blood trickled out of his veins and dripped onto the floor. The blade catches a hair, pulls it up, and slices through it, after which the hair starts to retract. He leapt from the cab to confront the gang but one of the thieves pulled out a craft knife and proceeded to slice the driver with the blade a number of times. 1.3no object, with adverbial of direction Move easily and quickly. 轻松快捷地移动 Grimsby sliced through Swindon's defence 格林姆斯比轻松突破斯温顿的防线。 Example sentencesExamples The road slices through rolling mountain terrain covered in greenery. The second one didn't miss a beat, and quickly sliced downwards, narrowly missing me. I dropped the bait, and a grouper grabbed it and took it up the reef, where it was robbed by a shark that sliced easily through the string attaching the weight before making off with the bait. The crowd stood up so they could see the specks, combined into one, quickly slicing through the sky. It drew closer and closer, slicing effortlessly through the white tips of the ocean's surface, a foreboding indication of the powerful squalus approaching beneath. On downhill runs we would slice past the bellowing Buran, sometimes startling a snowy arctic hare as we rounded a bend. Vorath led the first lap, but Nelson sliced past for the lead on lap two. The majestic wooden craft sliced easily through the water as she paddled. It was a tremendous machine. It moved gracefully, slicing through the water as if it existed simply for the service of this craft alone. The harsh winter winds were slicing past them and it felt like it was tearing their skin. The weapon's tip easily sliced through the water, but what followed was no ordinary feat. But even today, the sight of its rear grille slicing past you in the fast lane or cutting you up on a roundabout can induce a nostalgic burst of bitterness and resentment in other road users. A flowing move involving the whole back line sliced through the Bank defence leaving Clark to beat the last man for the try. I tacked upwind a few hundred yards and began slicing down the smooth, right-breaking faces, trying to stay focused on the sharp coral just below the surface. Those razor sharp hips sliced the air as he moved in time to the music. From there it's all singletrack slicing through cornfields and avocado and coffee plantations seemingly glued to the sides of steep slopes. In astronomical parlance, the comet which was slicing through Pisces and heading for the sun, has reached the ‘perihelion’ now. I could almost feel the waves against my skin, the power of the Titanic as it sliced through the water easily. Two blades sliced past his head from behind as Shushuka again landed stealthily, but not so quietly this time. The drive then takes us over increasingly bleak countryside, slicing through dense birch forest and peaty bog, all snow bleached and windswept by the looming power of Lake Superior. 2Golf Strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left) 〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球 Duval sliced his ball into the water to the right of the green Example sentencesExamples A golfer badly slices a golf ball, which heads toward the rough, but then bounces off a tree and into the cup for a hole in one. If you're topping or slicing the ball, the problem could be your knees. If you tend to slice the ball, I recommend that you tee it a little higher when hitting a driver or low-lofted metal wood. After slicing his tee ball into the trees at 18, he pitched out and barely sneaked a six-foot bogey putt in the side door. If you slice the ball, you should establish more generous limits. 2.1 (in sport) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact so that it travels forward spinning. （其他体育项目中的）斜切打；削球 Evans went and sliced a corner into his own net 埃文斯迎上去一脚让角球斜飞入己方网内。 Example sentencesExamples He only succeeded in slicing the ball and it looped over his own keeper Aaron Brian. The home side edged in front on 25 minutes when Yury Kovtun sliced an attempted cross from the left and saw his effort creep into the corner of Radovan Radacovic's goal. He can hit line drives or slice the ball to the opposite field. As he twisted and turned, feinted, dummied and sliced the ball off his boot with the greatest of ease, no one seemed capable of touching him. The ball doesn't go safe, but Wise does Paraguay's job for them by ridiculously slicing the loose ball into the side netting. Phrases any way (or however) you slice it informal However you look at the matter. the news is not good any way you slice it Example sentencesExamples However you slice it, high school children also need to learn to read and write in foreign languages. This is a positive report any way you slice it. Our numbers by design were conservative, but any way you slice it, this bill is great for New York. However you slice it, there is a challenge to our government. However you slice it, consumers love topping their gourmet pizza off with a gourmet beverage. Any way you slice it, the film is still just shy of becoming mind-numbingly dull. slice and dice Divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyse it more closely or in different ways. Example sentencesExamples But some interesting things happened when I sliced and diced the data further. You can slice and dice the news any way you like. Late today, Senate Democrats announced plans to slice and dice the president's budget, which is his top priority. It should also be able to generate serial numbers, perform revision control, and slice and dice the captured data every which way you chose - on demand. Once the assembled reporters and pundits had finished slicing and dicing the speech, I thought, I would have my cartoon for the night. But this way of slicing and dicing the numbers seems inherently misleading. Last summer, McCormick & Co. controller Ken Kelly sliced and diced his financial statements in ways he had never before imagined. The site slices and dices crime information in a ton of different ways, complete with a wide assortment of Google Maps. The categories can be sliced and diced indefinitely, creating a dazzling array of permutations. Today, data can be sliced and diced at lightening speeds and updated just as quickly. a slice of life A realistic representation of everyday experience in a film, play, or book. （电影、戏剧或书中）现实生活的真实片断 it's a slice of life and I hope you found it interesting Example sentencesExamples With his impeccable writing and subtle direction, Yang has created a remarkable, realistic slice of life that almost needs to be seen two or three times to fully comprehend everything that happens. But her Justine grounds the movie too much, keeping it an everyday slice of life when it could become a work of unbridled operatic brilliance. It's an engaging slice of life and a rare example of a disaster film that doesn't rely on special effects. Our voyeuristic tendencies are fed generously as the film shows us a slice of life that is both fascinating and horrible to watch. The story is part coming of age film, and part slice of life. This film presents a compelling slice of life whilst interrogating with extraordinary discipline the formal predicates which encase both the film and its protagonist. It's a little slice of life in a gathering of the mundane items of everyday existence. The play thus falters in its attempt to be a real and funny slice of life, scrambling to make colloquial its many screeds on life and love in the ‘burbs. More times than not the film succeeds as a tough, tender, comic slice of life. The film gets points for highlighting a decidedly unique slice of life, presenting it well, and trying to impart something fresh and original. Derivatives sliceable adjective Of course, the sliceable sauce is also suitable as ready-made sauce upon convenience products. Example sentencesExamples Epidemiologic data indicate that precooked, sliceable turkey deli meat is the cause of this outbreak. In general terms hot smoked fish is flaky whilst cold smoked fish is firmer and sliceable. She also continues to make jobne, a homemade cow's milk cheese served as a fresh spreadable cheese and as a sliceable aged cheese. If you've never had them and are curious, consider a pot of split pea soup boiled down until sliceable, and you're about there. slicer noun ˈslʌɪsəˈslaɪsər often in combination a bacon-slicer Example sentencesExamples Featuring old-style scales, bacon slicers and a coffee-grinder, it was a haven of personal service, with everything cut, weighed and wrapped with care. Last week, I cut my finger quite deeply while I was cleaning one of the food slicers. I believe that slicers tend to try and hit the ball in the downswing with their shoulders and body, rather than the club head itself. The garden also contains a vintage mechanical washing machine as well as antique ploughs, mangles and bacon slicers. This is a high-tech facility purpose-built to turn clumsy slicers into golfing ninjas. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'fragment, splinter'): shortening of Old French esclice 'splinter', from the verb esclicier, of Germanic origin; related to German schleissen 'to slice', also to slit. slate from Middle English: This is from the Old French esclat ‘a piece broken off’. Slat (Late Middle English) is a variant which meant ‘roofing slate’ until it developed the current sense in the mid 18th century. Schoolchildren formerly used flat pieces of slate for writing on in chalk, and shops and bars used the same materials for keeping a record of what a customer owed. This is the origin of the expression on the slate, ‘to be paid for later, on credit’. The related French esclice ‘splinter’ gives us slice (Middle English) and their common Germanic source also gives us slit (Old English). In the sense ‘to criticize’, dating from the mid 19th century, slate is probably a different word. It might derive from the slightly earlier Irish sense ‘to beat, beat up’ and be related to a Scots use of slate meaning ‘to set a dog on’, which is from Old Norse. Rhymes advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, price, rice, sice, speiss, spice, splice, suffice, syce, thrice, top-slice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss noun.1 phr. Definition of slice in US English: slice nounslaɪsslīs 1A thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion. （切下的）薄片 four slices of bread 四片面包。 potato slices 土豆片。 Example sentencesExamples Anyhow, this morning I wanted to have two slices of whole wheat bread with some strawberry jam for breakfast. Try to keep the slices of potatoes, onions and sausage roughly the same thickness. On the rim of the sizeable bowl sat four thin slices of crisp French bread which we took at first to be garlic bread. She ate her breakfast which consisted of two thin slices of bread and a small cup of water. The traditional way of eating Gentleman's Relish is on thin slices of buttered white bread toast, alone, with cucumber or with mustard and cress. This hearty wedge of egg stuffed with thin slices of potato, red pepper, tomato and herbs on its own would be worth returning for. My fish was excellent, chips just right, as were the two thin slices of bread. I add white wine, some onions and fennel, and then serve it whole on a long dish with mayonnaise, slices of lemon and basmati rice. The dressing and accompaniments were exquisite and the slices of meat paper thin. While the mushrooms are cooking, toast the slices of bread. We shared a slice of baked almond tart, served warm with cream and a jam-like fruity sauce. On a sheet pan, place 12 slices of crusty bread and a small round of Brie. The only way it can be suitably prepared is by stir-frying thin slices of the meat with the skin attached at high temperature. Put the garlic-scented slices of toasted bread on to a plate then drizzle olive oil over them. Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto. Set two slices of bread on top and drizzle with the remaining olive oil. The pudding is made by lining a buttered basin with fairly thin slices of good bread cut to fit exactly. The juicier the fruit the better, so best not use the thin slices of dried fruit such as mango or apple. Serve in a soup bowl, pouring the soup over slices of bread and topping with shredded Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and more ground pepper. Slap two slices of meat between two slices of bread - there's no easier way to build a sandwich. Synonyms piece, portion, wedge, chunk, hunk, lump, slab, segment 1.1 A single serving of pizza, typically one eighth of a pie. every payday we'd meet at Vinnie's for a beer and a couple of slices Example sentencesExamples We found an authentic Italian pizza joint that sold slices by the kilo. We're in front of a pizza joint now. He orders the steak bomb, I get a slice. He bit into his pizza slice. In Japan, folks stop by their local sobaya for a dish of plump buckwheat soba noodles, the way New Yorkers pick up a slice. Have you found a great place to get a slice? Eve took three pizza slices and put them daintily on her plate. Fortunately, there are a few ways you can cut the fat and still let your kids enjoy a pizza slice or two. 1.2 A portion or share of something. 部分；份 local authorities control a huge slice of public spending 地方当局控制着公共支出中很大一部分。 Example sentencesExamples The ranch family that sold us a slice of its empire, huddled in the shadows of Black Mountain, had used this wetland for three generations as its own private dump. Everybody from general assistants to stock controllers and delivery drivers enjoyed a slice of the profits. Baseball is a slice of American life, and baseball people have historically taken risks and made sacrifices to defend America. That's when companies were trying absolutely radical stuff to gain a slice of market share. The answer, he said, was to mass-produce a cheaper version and capture a slice of the huge mid-priced guitar market. Knowing all this, who's going to pay $5.25 a share for a slice of a declining business? It showed in the contact situation, where Bedford just had the sharper hunger at the breakdown, and they were able to protect a hard-won lead with a slice of good fortune favouring them on the day. I think that Menzies was genuine and committed in his anti-Communism, and the element of spies and espionage was only a slice of that. All we are saying down there, as I understand it, is that you can't take a slice of it, recount it until it comes out your way, and then ignore the rest of the contest. Broadcasters received fixed-term, renewable licenses that gave them exclusive use of a slice of the spectrum for free. The electricity shop salesperson is highly unlikely to be an insurance expert, but will be very clued up on the commission to be made by offering you a slice of ‘peace of mind’. Now it is women who are pushing for a bigger share of family assets, and even looking for a slice of their husbands' future earnings after they have separated or signed off on a divorce agreement. Depending on how lucky you felt, the taxman could either add his share to your initial stake or take a slice of your winnings. Let me share with you a slice of our conversation that we had over tea. It was felt by some that the rescue would have been acceptable if those who paid for it - including the state - received a slice of the bank's shares in return. A slice of humanity was extinguished in the process. He controls just a slice of the intelligence budget. Inland, vintage jeeps and other military vehicles wind their way through the meandering narrow lanes between the lush fields and gentle sand dunes as men and women try to recreate a slice of history. A slice of ‘real’ life, walking down the street without being recognised is something that probably keeps Nagesh grounded. When we buy shares in a company we are acquiring a slice of a business, albeit a small one. Synonyms share, part, portion, tranche, piece, bit, parcel, proportion, allotment, allocation, percentage 2A utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish. 锅铲 Example sentencesExamples The only trouble is, it seems to replace the white cake slice. I wiped me fingers gently down the rabbit's flank, then, shutting my eyes, I slid my hand beneath its limp head like a kitchen slice scooping up a burst pasty. This fabulous musical cake slice is perfect for use over the festive period. 3Golf A stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently. 〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球 Compare with hook Example sentencesExamples Nevertheless he began cautiously, with a four-iron off the 1st tee, his mild slice finding the light rough on the right of the fairway. If you don't add the wrist roll or release into your swing the face of the club at impact will stay open and cause a slice. It can help players who hit weak fades or slices, enabling them to hit solid draws. Nobody has trouble putting sidespin on the ball - that's what produces hooks and slices. The wind heightens any spin on the ball, and accentuates a slice or a hook. 3.1 (in sports) a shot or stroke made with glancing contact to impart spin. （其他体育项目中的）斜切打；削球 Example sentencesExamples At the start, Graf had problems with the slice on the Davenport serve. Combining top spins, slices and net shots, she forced Tangphong to make a string of unforced errors, handing the Indonesian a crushing first set win. I wanted to do everything at a slow tempo as I knew it is critical to having a solid slice at the ball. The slice slows the ball's speed down giving you the time to get into a better position. The final game particularly pleased her coach as Brown mixed up her game, throwing in a few slices and higher top-spun shots and letting Dalton force the pace and make the errors. verbslaɪsslīs [with object] 1Cut (something, especially food) into slices. 把…切成（薄）片 slice the onion into rings 把洋葱切成一圈一圈。 Example sentencesExamples The potatoes are thinly sliced, mixed with garlic and cream and topped with grated cheese. As usual, my brothers and I ate like pigs, while our visitors ate and sliced their food incredibly slowly… The soup arrived in a steaming tureen, accompanied by a separate plate full of tender pork, salted duck egg, crispy pak choi, sliced carrot and Chinese mushroom. Tomatoes in some form - tomato sauce or paste or sliced tomatoes - are almost always part of a pizza and that's a good thing. Breakfasts are typically Dutch, with lots of bread rolls, cheeses and sliced meats. Without sliced bread, you'd just get whole loaves handed to you. Interestingly, our white sliced bread came with butter and a whole baked garlic bulb. A two-inch cube of gratin dauphinois binds thinly sliced potatoes with heavy cream and butter, and makes an excellent foil for the bold beef. He takes control of serving the food now, slicing the steaks into even, thin slices and arranging them on Olivia's plate. The meat is sliced and served separately as a second course, accompanied by a salad or a vegetable. The pierna, thinly sliced pork stewed in a savory tomato-chile sauce, is also good. Berries are great sprinkled into yoghurt; raisins can be added to salads or try sliced apples in sandwiches. She was delighted with the lightly-toasted brown bread and thinly sliced grilled tomatoes. Just then, our elbows knocked into each other as he was slicing his food. And, just to round it all off, I turned to and knocked us up a quick hash of potato, sliced apple and crisp lean bacon for supper. You can add any sort of meat, sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, bacon, sausage or pineapple. The two cakes can be filled with whipped cream and sliced bananas. Its warm creaminess qualifies oatmeal as a comfort food, and adding sliced strawberries or apple gives it an antioxidant punch. Meanwhile, mince the garlic, slice the onion, chop the green pepper and dice the eggplants into 2 cm cubes. Synonyms cut, cut up, carve, divide, segment, section 1.1slice something off/from Cut something from (something larger) with a sharp implement. 切开；划破 he sliced a corner from a fried egg 他从煎鸡蛋上切下一个角。 figurative he sliced 70 seconds off the record 〈喻〉他比纪录快了70秒。 Example sentencesExamples The main summit is conical and smooth-sided; the top is sliced off like an egg. The key ingredient comes from a cruel practice: slicing the fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back in the ocean. I sliced the top off and told my girl to scoop out the seeds and flesh. Someone busted his forehead open with a car stereo; another rioter tried to slice his ear off. I just wanted to grab that huge knife out of her hand and show her how to chop an onion without slicing her fingers off. What remains around the stone can be sliced off and then, as a last resort, gnawed with the teeth. After slicing eight-seconds off her own world record, Chantel swam to Telstra Olympic Trials victory in the 400m freestyle multi disability event at the Sydney Aquatic Centre. ‘Disappointing’ results in January sliced a third off its shares. Bragadino's nose and ears were sliced off after he had watched his officers and staff being beheaded. The implement slices the tops off the grain hulls and then squeezes the pulp and kernels from the cob while leaving the hulls attached. ‘I smashed my face in the driving mirror, and my left eyelid was sliced off,’ she recalls. And it felt like the top of my head had been sliced off. Take the fish and slice the fillets off them with a very sharp knife. As piglets, their tails are sliced off, their teeth are chipped, and then they're castrated - all without anaesthetic. She reached for her sword and held it behind her back and sliced her hair off right below her ears. The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft. The force sliced the roof off the car and catapulted Gail into the road. If you aren't going to serve the fish whole, slice off the fins on both sides. It will be worth slicing a bit off our up-front margin, if we retain all our customers. I chopped at the onion, careful not to slice a finger off. Synonyms cut off, sever, chop off, hack off, shear off 1.2 Cut with or as if with a sharp implement. 切开；划破 the bomber's wings were slicing the air with some efficiency 轰炸机机翼快速划破长空。 no object the blade sliced into his palm 刀刃划破了他的手掌。 Example sentencesExamples As the sharp edge of the knife sliced his arm blood trickled out of his veins and dripped onto the floor. When the head barista came out brandishing a long sharp knife to slice open the plastic all that was revealed was a pile of cardboard boxes of the catering kind. With one furious move, Lynette took the sword in her own hand, she hardly felt the pain in her fingers as the sharp blade sliced through her palm. She heard the singing of a blade being drawn from its scabbard, and dropped into a crouch as said blade sliced the air above her head. They flew immaculately together, as if they were linked by a silver chain like swans in Irish folklore, the vast wings slicing the air without haste, and disappeared over the hill and far away. All was left now was a sharp fear that sliced her heart like a knife. As the blood returned to the ankle, it throbbed intensely, as if icy hot knives of pain were slicing his foot in half. Use a sharp knife to slice through the spear right at ground level. The truth was like a sharp knife and it sliced her heart with every word she uttered. The young woman was sliced from mouth to ear and has undergone surgery. He leapt from the cab to confront the gang but one of the thieves pulled out a craft knife and proceeded to slice the driver with the blade a number of times. Sharp rocks sliced her bare feet as she tried to regain her balance. If you pick roses for a vase, use a sharp knife to slice the base of the stem, then crush the wound to aid water-absorption. Suddenly a shuddering blade of air slices it in half. He turned around, swinging his blade slicing the demon's throat open. I threw myself to the ground as the four foot blades sliced the air over my head. The blade catches a hair, pulls it up, and slices through it, after which the hair starts to retract. The attacker brought the knife up slicing John's throat in one quick motion. Using a sharp knife, I slice each one diagonally, from just below the handle to the opposite corner of the base. The metal burs might be sharp enough to slice a good line across her throat. 1.3no object, with adverbial of direction Move easily and quickly. 轻松快捷地移动 Senna then sliced past Berger to take third place Example sentencesExamples I tacked upwind a few hundred yards and began slicing down the smooth, right-breaking faces, trying to stay focused on the sharp coral just below the surface. The weapon's tip easily sliced through the water, but what followed was no ordinary feat. On downhill runs we would slice past the bellowing Buran, sometimes startling a snowy arctic hare as we rounded a bend. It was a tremendous machine. It moved gracefully, slicing through the water as if it existed simply for the service of this craft alone. Two blades sliced past his head from behind as Shushuka again landed stealthily, but not so quietly this time. I could almost feel the waves against my skin, the power of the Titanic as it sliced through the water easily. The drive then takes us over increasingly bleak countryside, slicing through dense birch forest and peaty bog, all snow bleached and windswept by the looming power of Lake Superior. I dropped the bait, and a grouper grabbed it and took it up the reef, where it was robbed by a shark that sliced easily through the string attaching the weight before making off with the bait. But even today, the sight of its rear grille slicing past you in the fast lane or cutting you up on a roundabout can induce a nostalgic burst of bitterness and resentment in other road users. In astronomical parlance, the comet which was slicing through Pisces and heading for the sun, has reached the ‘perihelion’ now. The harsh winter winds were slicing past them and it felt like it was tearing their skin. It drew closer and closer, slicing effortlessly through the white tips of the ocean's surface, a foreboding indication of the powerful squalus approaching beneath. The crowd stood up so they could see the specks, combined into one, quickly slicing through the sky. A flowing move involving the whole back line sliced through the Bank defence leaving Clark to beat the last man for the try. From there it's all singletrack slicing through cornfields and avocado and coffee plantations seemingly glued to the sides of steep slopes. The road slices through rolling mountain terrain covered in greenery. Vorath led the first lap, but Nelson sliced past for the lead on lap two. Those razor sharp hips sliced the air as he moved in time to the music. The second one didn't miss a beat, and quickly sliced downwards, narrowly missing me. The majestic wooden craft sliced easily through the water as she paddled. 2Golf Strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently. 〔高尔夫〕侧旋球，斜切打侧曲线球 Example sentencesExamples If you tend to slice the ball, I recommend that you tee it a little higher when hitting a driver or low-lofted metal wood. If you slice the ball, you should establish more generous limits. After slicing his tee ball into the trees at 18, he pitched out and barely sneaked a six-foot bogey putt in the side door. If you're topping or slicing the ball, the problem could be your knees. A golfer badly slices a golf ball, which heads toward the rough, but then bounces off a tree and into the cup for a hole in one. 2.1 (in sports) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact to impart spin. （其他体育项目）打削球；打斜切球 Evans went and sliced a corner into his own net 埃文斯迎上去一脚让角球斜飞入己方网内。 Example sentencesExamples He can hit line drives or slice the ball to the opposite field. He only succeeded in slicing the ball and it looped over his own keeper Aaron Brian. As he twisted and turned, feinted, dummied and sliced the ball off his boot with the greatest of ease, no one seemed capable of touching him. The ball doesn't go safe, but Wise does Paraguay's job for them by ridiculously slicing the loose ball into the side netting. The home side edged in front on 25 minutes when Yury Kovtun sliced an attempted cross from the left and saw his effort creep into the corner of Radovan Radacovic's goal. Phrases slice and dice Divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyze it more closely or in different ways. each network has analysis teams that slice and dice the exit poll information to find a conclusion Example sentencesExamples But this way of slicing and dicing the numbers seems inherently misleading. Late today, Senate Democrats announced plans to slice and dice the president's budget, which is his top priority. It should also be able to generate serial numbers, perform revision control, and slice and dice the captured data every which way you chose - on demand. Once the assembled reporters and pundits had finished slicing and dicing the speech, I thought, I would have my cartoon for the night. Last summer, McCormick & Co. controller Ken Kelly sliced and diced his financial statements in ways he had never before imagined. The site slices and dices crime information in a ton of different ways, complete with a wide assortment of Google Maps. The categories can be sliced and diced indefinitely, creating a dazzling array of permutations. You can slice and dice the news any way you like. Today, data can be sliced and diced at lightening speeds and updated just as quickly. But some interesting things happened when I sliced and diced the data further. slice of life A realistic representation of everyday experience in a movie, play, or book. （电影、戏剧或书中）现实生活的真实片断 Example sentencesExamples The play thus falters in its attempt to be a real and funny slice of life, scrambling to make colloquial its many screeds on life and love in the ‘burbs. This film presents a compelling slice of life whilst interrogating with extraordinary discipline the formal predicates which encase both the film and its protagonist. With his impeccable writing and subtle direction, Yang has created a remarkable, realistic slice of life that almost needs to be seen two or three times to fully comprehend everything that happens. But her Justine grounds the movie too much, keeping it an everyday slice of life when it could become a work of unbridled operatic brilliance. Our voyeuristic tendencies are fed generously as the film shows us a slice of life that is both fascinating and horrible to watch. The film gets points for highlighting a decidedly unique slice of life, presenting it well, and trying to impart something fresh and original. It's an engaging slice of life and a rare example of a disaster film that doesn't rely on special effects. More times than not the film succeeds as a tough, tender, comic slice of life. The story is part coming of age film, and part slice of life. It's a little slice of life in a gathering of the mundane items of everyday existence. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘fragment, splinter’): shortening of Old French esclice ‘splinter’, from the verb esclicier, of Germanic origin; related to German schleissen ‘to slice’, also to slit. noun.1 phr.
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