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.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

One man in Australia a couple of years ago was under the delusion that his father was replaced with a robot and cut off his head.

几年前一名澳大利亚人由于幻想他的父亲,变成了机器人而将他父亲的头砍了下来

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And not only are the Greeks as a whole cut off from the rest of the world, but Greece itself, which used to be an area of easy exchange, where people could go from one place to the other and did, localism now comes into the picture.

而且不仅是希腊人作为一个群体被排除在,世界之外,希腊内部也出现了问题,它曾经也是一个贸易中心,人们从其他地方赶来又走向另一个地方,而此时,地方主义开始兴起

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

An act of Congress requires a cut-off of most U.S.aid to countries where elected governments are unseated by the military.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

Despite the criticism of its neighbors, the Egyptian government is believed to be building a wall to cut off the smuggling tunnels used to transport goods and, Israel alleges, weapons to the territory.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"We cannot build a stable global economy when hundreds of millions of workers and families find themselves on the wrong side of globalization, cut off from markets and out of reach of modern technologies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Hassan Moinuddin of the Asian Development Bank's Mekong Sub-Region Program says a warmer climate could cut almost seven percent off the region's gross domestic product by the end of this century, by reducing crops or forcing the relocation of communities.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21