Anyone can make the decision to do without the unnecessary, to cut off cable TV, to consider doing without a car, to only buy what's absolutely necessary and to rethink what's necessary.

任何人都可以自己决定放弃那些不需要的东西，放弃有线电视，放弃车子，只买那些绝对需要的东西，重新想一下什么是真正需要的。

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Anyone can make the decision to do without the necessary, to cut off cable TV, to consider doing without a car, to only buy what's absolutely necessary and to rethink what's necessary.

每个人都可以做出缩减必需品的决定：剪断有线电视，卖掉小车，只买非买不可的东西，并且重新考虑哪些东西是非买不可的。

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Next time your power is cut off because a tree has fallen on the cable, remember that.

下次再因为有树砸断电缆导致断电的话，请记住这一点。

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The Mets, at the peak of their popularity in the mid-1980s, made the mistake of locking into a long-term cable agreement that cut them off from the escalating rights fees of the 1990s.

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Rives, a 28-year-old cable technician from Ellenwood, Georgia, accidentally cut off three toes on his right foot two years ago while trying out his new riding mower.

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