They raised prices and cut production, instead of cutting costs.

他们提高了价格，减少了产量，而没有削减成本。

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Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose.

可怜的杰佩托不停地切呀切，可是他越切，那个无礼的鼻子就越长。

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In fact, the traditional view was correct: if you cut taxes without cutting spending, you end up with a damaging deficit.

事实上，传统的观念是正确的：如果在削减税收的同时支出没有减少，最终将形成严重的赤字。

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If everyone else is cutting down I don't have too, and if everyone else does cut down I don't have to, I end up using hot water and driving a big car and so on.

如果大家都想减排,我没必要跟风,如果别人真的减排了又与我何干,我照样用着热水,开着大排量汽车

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In the American Jobs Act, the President proposed to expand that tax cut by cutting payroll taxes in half, so a typical family would get an even larger tax cut next year.

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An easier way to cut calories without cutting portions is to increase the water content of foods that you eat.

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The Conservatives might, again, cut taxes without cutting public spending in parallel.

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