First, you have to have a sharp axe.

首先，你要有把锋利的斧子。

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Mercury appeared as before, and, on learning that his axe had fallen in, he dived and brought up a golden axe, as he had done on the previous occasion.

墨丘利像以前一样出现了，知道他的斧子落入水中后，他与上次一样跳进河里捞起一把金斧子。

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Some cannot bring themselves to wield the axe: big disposals are often triggered only when a new boss takes over or a financial crisis forces a chief executive's hand.

他们通常不会主动挥起大斧：只有当新老板接手公司或者发生财务危机而迫使其这样做时，通常才会引发这类大的交易改组。

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The European Commission in Brussels recently proposed taking a meat-axe to the problem.

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This is about the time I would expect to have my luck run out, to have some Foot Knight charge up behind me with a pole-axe and thwack me to death.

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Samantha Rigg-David, the sister of Sean Rigg, a 40-year-old man who died in police custody in 2008 in Brixton, and Alastair Morgan, whose brother Daniel - a private detective - was found with an axe in his head in a south London pub's car park in 1987, took part in the demonstration.

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