The flood cut the townspeople off from the rest of the world.

洪水割断了该镇居民与外界的联系。

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For the man who has cut himself off from life, tragedy is intensely painful because contradictions arise not only inside himself but also between him and the rest of the world.

对于那些生命日渐缩短的人而言，悲剧是一种强烈的痛苦，因为矛盾不仅在他的内心升起，同样在他与剩余的世界。

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The main fear is that the rest of the world proves less resilient than now seems likely: commodity exporters, say, may rely on American demand less than they did, but are hardly cut off from it.

最主要的担心是其他国家未必像现在表现的那样有弹性：商品出口国称虽然对美国的依赖有所减少，但不能和美国“一刀两断”。

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His town of Chikoti(ph), which likes next to the frontier that separates Indian and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, was cut off for several weeks from the rest of Pakistan by landslides.

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Analysts at Commerzbank noted that the cut-off date for the CFTC data does not take into account the continued slump in prices for the rest of week, so the situation may be different once newer data is released.

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This is what happens when a city is cut off from the rest of the country by desert, developed by the Mob, built on broken get-rich-quick dreams and where visitors outnumber locals nearly 20 to one.

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