I felt alone,cut off from friends, high above the firm earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Whoever does work on it, that person is cut off from among his kin.

不管谁在这一天工作，这个人要和他的家族断绝关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

"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

We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

VOA: special.2009.11.19

It arrested two Swiss businessmen, threatened to cut off crude oil deliveries, withdrew its money from Swiss banks, and told Swiss International Air Lines it could no longer fly to Tripoli.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23