All this explains why the bosses of several start-ups have started to wield a big axe.

所有这些都解释了为什么几家创业公司的老板已经开始挥起巨斧。

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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 village elder who directed the cutting said that the last time they caught a shark as big as this was three years ago, and they had to use an axe to cut through the bone and separate the head.

那位指挥切割的老渔民告诉我，还是在三年前，他们也曾捕到这样大的鲨鱼，不得不用斧子砍断鱼骨，把鱼骨、鱼头砍下来。

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"I'm not coming here with a big axe to swing and cut everything out, " he said.

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Murtha now wants to axe big parts of military IO, even though he doesn't really understand the concept himself.

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Labor is where the big expense lies, and labor is where the axe almost always comes crashing down.

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