In December GM had said it would cut the number of plants from 47 in 2008 to 38 by 2012, but has now added another five factories facing the axe, which would leave it with 33 facilities.

去年12月GM曾说它计划把它的工厂从2008已有47家到2012年砍至38家，但现在它又准备多削减5家，这使得它只保留33家工厂。

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Armed with an axe of metal, instead of the old axe of stone, the savage can go into the forest and cut down trees at will.

有了金属制作的斧头，这些未开化的人不再使用石斧，他们能到树林里任意伐木了。

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Saw cutting saw, not only with a chisel, axe, contains forging burn after the break is cut points.

锯截不仅用锯，用凿、斧，包含锻烧后的摔打都是截分的办法。

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That could be good advice. If you strike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that is cut off will fall into your eye.

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Meanwhile Seagate is swinging the axe deep with an announced 6% cut (2, 950 people) to its global workforce coupled with executive pay cuts by as much as 25%.

ENGADGET: Google and Seagate cut staff while Microsoft weighs options

He will be replaced by Bernard Cazeneuve, the Europe minister, who will immediately have to wrestle with his fellow ministers over where the axe will fall in an unprecedented effort to cut France's big public spending bill.

CNN: French budget minister resigns

Nick Clegg is likely to accuse the other parties of getting into an argument about when to cut spending, rather than what to cut - and will suggest they should be more honest with voters ahead of the election on where the axe would fall afterwards, if the deficit is to be brought down.

BBC: The Full Story: Budget 2010