Just as large companies are having to cut back, so small businesses are being forced to close.

大公司不得不紧缩，小企业则被迫关闭。

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Our financial advisors and close friends advised me to cut our losses and give up.

我们的财务顾问和一些亲近的朋友建议我赶紧收手以减少损失。

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Then, just close the book and dip the cut edges in.

然后，合上书页，将整本书的边缘浸入颜料。

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To reduce costs, G.M.plans to close more factories and cut more jobs by the end of two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

At the close of the Group of 20 Summit in Toronto,Canada, the president noted moves in Europe to cut government spending.

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From a distance, they shot at each other. Close up, they cut each other with knives.

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Brantley needed 15 stitches to close a cut on his left forearm after he was accidentally spiked Monday by Oakland third baseman Josh Donaldson.

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After the death of Keats, a close friend cut the manuscript into 13 pieces and distributed them to the poet's friends and admirers as mementoes.

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Better for America to hold Pakistan close than cut it loose.

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