Potato rations have been cut by a third, to two a person each day.

土豆的配额已被削减了三分之一，而目前是每天一人两个土豆。

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January 21, 2010—Nit Ponpaengpa, a widowed grandmother who works as a massage therapist in Bangkok, had her wages cut by a third at one of the city’s spas last year.

2010年2月21日—Nit Ponpaengpa是曼谷的一位寡居的祖母，曾在市里的一家SPA做按摩理疗为生，过去这一年她的工资减少了三分之一。

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Students who do not need the extra training could cut their debt mountain by a third.

不需要额外培训学生可以将他们堆积如山的债务削减三分之一。

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It's really easy, and the conventional cooking time is cut by a third.

NPR: Recipes: 'Big Sky Cooking'

Meanwhile, the number of people employed by the banking sector has been cut by a third, from 114, 000 before the crisis, and more redundancies are unavoidable.

ECONOMIST: South Korean banking

The armed forces have indeed been shrunk, but not without hiccups: army strength, under the peace accords, was to be cut by a third, to 31, 000, but then the generals suddenly claimed it was only 35, 000 anyway, so much smaller cuts were in order.

ECONOMIST: Guatemala