Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.

更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

so that when the editor comes to edit it, everything will cut together seamlessly

这样当制片人剪片的时候，所有的东西都可以天衣无缝地剪辑在一起，

制作电视节目 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It combines a tax cut for employers and spending for road projects in an effort to reduce unemployment.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Then we start paying a dividend and then if we ever have to cut it, we're in big trouble.

然后我们开始分红,如果暂停分红,大麻烦就来了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And it wants to cut more than one thousand dealerships by the end of next year.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Sometimes a blunt cut is useful if you want to sort of grow a sticky end of your choice on it.

这时候钝切口很有用,尤其在你想获得选定的粘性末端的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But there was no man on the farm to cut it down and sell it.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

OK. Binary search is perhaps the simplest of the divide and conquer algorithms, and what does that mean? It says, in order to solve a problem, cut it down to a smaller problem and try and solve that one.

好了，二分搜索也许是,最简单的分治算法，这意味着什么？,也就是说，为了解决一个问题,把它切割成小的问题,然后再来一个个解决。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.11.19

And just to give you a sense, if you do a cross-cut of this, you cannot show it from this angle, but it should really be sort of a dumbbell shape with the nodal plane in between the two nuclei.

告诉你们这些就是给你们点概念，假如你们把他横切切开，不能从角度上展示，但它还是会保留几分哑铃的形态,以及在两核之间的节面。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So it may help cut the production of carbon gases linked to climate change.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

If it's too heavily advertised, well that screams out for government regulation to cut back on marketing.

如果是因为铺天盖地的广告宣传,那就要呼吁政府出台法规以控制过度宣传

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Hay has to be cut and gathered when it is dry.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

But it means to cut short, to cut short and therefore get in a little bit earlier.

意思是突然停止,突然停止,然后提前一点进入

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It thickens the blood around a cut to stop bleeding.

VOA: special.2010.09.14

I think it's important to get the spending cut too It's very...it's much more difficult to work on the spending in fact but that's essential.

我觉得，同时还应当削减财政支出呢,尽管事实上这个更难做到,但至少这一点至关重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Now it was not just any old cake. It came in the round cake pans, and I baked it, but then I attempted to cut out a heart and used pink icing and decorated it.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Lebanese military says it soldiers opened fire when the Israelis strayed across the border to cut down a tree.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Otherwise, "Good dog" is not going to cut it anymore.

否则，“好狗狗“这个词“,也就不会再起任何作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I have to cut down . It is an Indian wedding, so you cannot do without gold, so I have to give,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

That doesn't prove that the argument fails, but it does mean that you're going to have your work cut out for you if you're going to use this route to arguing for the existence of a soul.

但这并不表明这个论证就不成立,而它确实意味着,如果你要用这种途径,来证明灵魂存在的话,你需要有人帮你解答疑团

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It says the economic crisis has cut the amount of foreign aid and investment going to poor countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

I would've thought, given the evidence of what Bogdanovich says in that documentary, for instance, if the 4 to 5 minutes has not been cut, it might have been better than Citizen Kane, and maybe one of the few greatest movies that he ever made, maybe the greatest movie, who knows.

举个例子，通过博格达诺维奇,在纪录片中的讲述，如果那45分钟,没有被剪，它可能会比,《公民凯恩》要好，也可能是,他最好的几部电影之一，也可能是最好的，谁知道呢。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The farmers themselves pay to keep it running. Their new irrigation method has cut water usage by half.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

It's very clear and that is the Fed had just cut interest rates to 1%--it was unusual-- it was much talked about.

很明显,联储局刚将利率,削减至1%,这是很少见的事情,人们对此评论纷纷

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It did not stem overpopulation, cut poverty, lower the divorce rate or put an end to unwanted pregnancies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The Federal Funds Rate was recently cut to 2.25% and it's expected to be cut further because of the recession that we're now apparently in.

联邦资金利率最近被,缩减到2。25%，并且仍被认为要缩减,原因就在于我们现在历经的经济衰退。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The incentive in Washington is such that it's virtually impossible to cut spending unless you can go to the voters " and say "We don't have the money."

政府的机制就是这样,削减财政开支，几乎不可能,除非你有勇气对选民说,“政府没钱了“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选