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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And believe me, make sure that your government does not cut your public sector in a downturn.

相信我，千万不要让政府在萧条期削减你们的公共交通。

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When the date came, you would cut the coupon off and go to the bank and get your interest payment.

到息日到了以后，你就可以剪下这张息票拿到银行,去兑换利息。

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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

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I think that you have your work cut out for you.

我想，这本书已经完全表明你的观点啦。

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Consider getting your hair cut at the barber.

想象一下在理发店剪头发。

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Well we could begin with George Washington Alright, for your sake, we toss in John Kennedy ... who cut taxes. -Because... the Kennedy tax cuts and the Reagan tax cuts ... were both major tax cuts. -Did you hear me ask him ? for a one-word answer? Did you hear me?

那干脆从乔治·华盛顿谈起得了，真是的,好吧，看在你的面子上，姑且把他算上吧,他好歹也减税了，-因为。,肯尼迪的减税和里根的,都不可等闲视之，-我不是让他,只回答一个字吗？他怎么说这么多？

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If you get bacteria under your skin, if you get a cut and somehow that cut gets - bacteria gets inside there, the bacteria can reproduce on their own.

如果你皮肤里有细菌,而你又割伤了自己,并让细菌进入了伤口,细菌自身就可以繁殖

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One way that you can look for that gene that you want is by making the cut in your plasmid inside of a gene that encodes for some property like resistance to an antibiotic.

一种找到成功重组质粒的方式,是在质粒控制某种特性的编码区域切割,例如,对抗生素的抗性

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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

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