Technical advances have cut down on the number of grains you have to study, so you get your results faster.

技术进步已经减少了你需要研究的谷物，你就可以更快地得到结果。

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Most schools are extremely unwilling to cut down on staff in order to cut costs.

大多数学校都极不愿意为了减少开支而裁员。

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You should cut down on fats and carbohydrates.

你应该减少摄入脂肪和碳水化合物。

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When we're doing something that is interactive, we have to cut down on the detail of what we're doing because we can't support that in real time, but nonetheless there're lots of things we can do interactively.

当我们在做一些,互动性的项目时，我们需要减少,正在做的细节,因为在实际时间里,我们并没有足够时间支持它，但是还有很多其他东西,可以做得具有互动性。

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They definitely cut down on foreign students.

他们一定会减少外国学生的名额。

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And if the other countries aren't going to cut down on their fishing, then you want to catch the fish now, because there aren't going to be any there tomorrow.

如果其他国家不打算减少捕捞量,那么你现在就想先把鱼都捞起来,因为没准明天就会无鱼可捞了

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