They raised prices and cut production, instead of cutting costs.
他们提高了价格，减少了产量，而没有削减成本。
Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose.
可怜的杰佩托不停地切呀切，可是他越切，那个无礼的鼻子就越长。
In fact, the traditional view was correct: if you cut taxes without cutting spending, you end up with a damaging deficit.
事实上，传统的观念是正确的：如果在削减税收的同时支出没有减少，最终将形成严重的赤字。
Mr Obama has suggested extending a cut in employees' Social Security tax, enacted in December, but most of his, and Republicans', attention is now given to cutting the budget deficit.
奥巴马先生已经建议延长十二月颁布的雇员社会安全税的削减，但他和共和党人最多的注意力集中在削减预算赤字。
If they're failing they should cut their dividend, but companies are reluctant to do that because it looks bad, so they hold off for a long time, not cutting.
如果效益不好他们应该减少红利，但是公司不愿意这样做，是因为这样显得很糟糕，所以他们一直拖延着不去减少红利。
Workers may scurry to organize cut parts and move them to the appropriate downstream operations, which are likely to be less efficient than the primary cutting center.
工人们不得不急匆匆地组织物流，把切下的零件送到适当的后续工序，这样的效率可能反而不如原来低效率的切割中心。
They don’t propose cutting benefits to current retirees; invariably the plan is, instead, to cut benefits many years in the future.
他们不会提对现有退休者的退休金的削减，取而代之，他们不可避免地要压缩未来一定年后的退休金。
To cut costs, elaborate cakes are sometimes crafted out of Styrofoam, with a single real slice built in for the sake of the cutting ceremony.
为节省开支，有时候，精美的蛋糕是用塑料做的，只有当中一小块是真的，这样就能削减婚礼的费用。
Remember, if cutting back at all makes you feel really unhappy, then don’t cut back.
记住，如果削减的消费让你真的不快乐，那就算了吧。
USPS is slashing first-class delivery, cutting billions of dollars, and looking to cut thousands of workers. How did it get this bad?
美国邮政管理局（USPS）正在缩减一类邮件邮递业务量，削减费用几十亿美元，裁减人员上万。邮政业怎会到如此地步？
Fight club gets to be your reason for going to the gym and keeping your hair cut short and cutting your nails.
搏击会成了你去健身、去头发剪短以及剪指甲的全部理由。
Slide the small piece of cardboard in the flat bag, so you have a surface to cut on without cutting through the other side of the bag.
把硬纸板放在袋子内部，这样它在切割的时候就会垫住一层纸，而不会让你刻穿另一面的纸。
Just like that, his signature bowl cut with the flirtatious fringe hit the cutting room floor in favor of a gelled, layered look that harkens back to the New Wave singers of the 1980s.
就这么突然地，他闪亮的刘海落到剪辑室地板上，标志性的西瓜头变成了抹着发胶、层次分明的模样，就好像20世纪80年代那些新浪潮歌手。
SJM, which went public in July after repeatedly cutting its offering price to entice a sceptical market, has seen its valuation cut in half.
SJM公司7月上市后，屡次削减发行价以刺激市场关注，目前它的估价已经折半。
Cutting each piece takes three workers (one holding the re-bar being cut in place over a rock, one hitting, one watching) two minutes.
弄断每根钢筋需要三个工人(一个人拿着钢筋抵在石头上，一个人敲击，一个人在旁边看着)，这个过程需要两分钟。
Thinning scissors are used by hair dressers and have serrated cutting edges so that hair is cut at different lengths. This way it doesn't all "bunch up" together.
细化剪刀是美发师的常用工具，它的刀刃是锯齿状的，所以可以将头发剪出不同的长度从而使它们不会堆在一起。
When I started using methods to cut our grocery costs, I wound up cutting my bill in half by only implementing a handful of these tips.
当我开始使用的方法削减开支，虽然只执行一小撮这些秘诀，我的账单就减少了一半。
Next, sprinkle some flour on a cutting board, roll the flour on the board and cut them up.
下一步在案板上抹上一些面粉，把面团倒在板子上，切成饼干形状。
BMW has said that it was reducing its Mini workforce at Cowley, Oxford, by 850 and cutting production, while 1, 200 jobs are to be cut at Nissan's plant in Sunderland.
宝马公司曾经表示，它正在对它的牛津市考利迷你工厂进行裁员850人并削减产量，而日产汽车在它的桑德兰工厂将裁员1 200人。
An aggressive approach to cutting the cost of prescribed drugs, after a decade of rapid rises, could cut 15% off the bill over two years.
在处方药支出连续十年快速上涨以后，一个积极的方案能够在两年内将该项开销削减15%。
The woman doing the cutting tossed the shorn hair in every direction as she cut.
那个剪头发的女人把剪断的头发往各个方向投去。
Understandably, businesses must find ways to cut expenses without cutting services where possible.
可以理解地，公司必须找到方法以尽可能减少花费，且无损服务。
Such designers favor certain cutting techniques with names like the “jigsaw cut” (from Mr. Liu) and “subtraction cutting” (from Mr. Roberts).
喜欢这种方法的设计师偏好“拼图剪裁法”、“减法剪裁法”这样的技术。
This is where an often-overlooked area of cutting automaton can help: strategic cut-parts storage.
切割自动化一个经常被忽略的领域：战略削减零部件库存方案，可以缓解库存压力。
Continue to cut the hair upwards cutting at an Angle when fade lines are reached.
每到达一条发际线的时候继续用斜方剪刀修剪头发。
The pollster provided a list of programs that could potentially be cut in the name of deficit reduction. Respondents were asked whether the cutting the program was acceptable or unacceptable.
民意测验专家提供了一系列名义上以减少赤字的节目，回应者被问及是否减少赤字，这节目是否可行。
Books and TV shows on frugal living would have you believe that you can survive an income cut merely by cutting coupons and shopping in thrift stores. Don't believe them.
靠收集优惠券、去二手市场购物，我们就可以平安度过薪酬缩水时期——宣扬勤俭持家的书籍和电视节目也许会让人对此信以为真，但是千万不要轻信。
The windblades come to existence by cutting the bamboos into halves. The ends of the bamboos are cut angularly so the lamp lights downwards to the passer-bys and its motion can be seen from afar.
将一节竹子劈去一半就成了风叶，把竹子的末端做成向下的倾角，这样灯光就能向下照射为路人照明，也能从远处看到。
The village elder who directed the cutting said that the last time they caught a shark as big as this was three years ago, and they had to use an axe to cut through the bone and separate the head.
那位指挥切割的老渔民告诉我，还是在三年前，他们也曾捕到这样大的鲨鱼，不得不用斧子砍断鱼骨，把鱼骨、鱼头砍下来。
The village elder who directed the cutting said that the last time they caught a shark as big as this was three years ago, and they had to use an axe to cut through the bone and separate the head.
那位指挥切割的老渔民告诉我，还是在三年前，他们也曾捕到这样大的鲨鱼，不得不用斧子砍断鱼骨，把鱼骨、鱼头砍下来。
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