The woman doing the cutting tossed the shorn hair in every direction as she cut.

那个剪头发的女人把剪断的头发往各个方向投去。

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However shrewdly the cops are deployed, they might not have cut crime so dramatically if social trends had not also been moving in the right direction.

不管警察布置如何周密，如果社会大气候没有往好的方向转变，警察还是不能这么大幅度削减犯罪。

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"This is an issue that can cut in every possible direction," he replied.

“这是一个可以切割成有多个可能方向的问题，”他回复说。

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But climbing rates and uncertainty cut the other direction, and this year-end is especially hard to handicap.

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The spiritual mission helped doom the enclave's material prosperity, when the Jesuits' spreading influence finally prompted Japan to shutter itself from the world by the early 1640s. (The Dutch cut off trade from the other direction by seizing Malacca in 1641.) But over the next century the effort gave Macau a purpose, as a center of learning and a bridge to the Middle Kingdom.

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By providing a specific list of procedures to question -- and to cut down -- the medical community hopes to push us in the right direction.

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