If you want to play safe, cut down on the amount of salt you eat.

如果你想万无一失，就少吃盐。

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We're trying to cut down on the amount of paperwork involved.

我们正在努力降低有关此事的文书工作量。

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You might have to cut down on the amount of exercise or sport you do.

你可能不得不减少锻炼或运动的量。

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We transition to actually real world applications later on like a compression-- how do you take a huge amount of data ; and actually whittle it down into something more manageable; something that uses less of your disk space.

然后我们会讲生活中的应用程序,比方说压缩文件——,把大量的数据分解使其更易管理;,并占用尽量少的磁盘空间。

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I'm getting--we're all lowering-- all of our shares are going down by the same amount.

我们的分子都在降低,我们的股票都降低了相同数量

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Exacerbating the problem is that as home prices have decreased, many lenders have increased the down-payment amount required to obtain a mortgage loan.

FORBES: Down Payment on Home Out of Reach for Half of U.S., Poll Finds

Adjust the reserve to a more typical level--and thereby move the tangible book down by a like amount--and Citi doesn't look so cheap.

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That could mean losing her down payment - not a small amount of money.

NPR: Soft Housing Market Catches Some Between Homes