Pakistan has managed Iran's interests in the U.S.since Washington severed diplomatic ties after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Saint Ebba had not only severed her nose, she had also severed her lip.

圣人Ebba不仅割了她的鼻子，也割了她的嘴唇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The quake also started fires, severed roads and cut off power and communications to the area.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

He spent 10 months in Iraq and then was deployed to Afghanistan, where a roadside bomb severed both his legs on August 30 last year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Her femoral artery's been severed.She's losing too much blood. No, no, my head is burning!

VOA: standard.other

He still carries a reminder of that day: a fat scar that runs from the middle of his neck to the top of his cheek, where the machete of a militiaman almost severed his head.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07