When Banks cut off lending businessmen went to the high-interest informal lenders figuring that a month or two later they'd get loans again to repay their other debts.

当银行削减贷款，商人便走向高息的民间借贷者。这意味着，一两个月后他们又得再次搞到贷款以支付其他的债务。

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And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

内中有一个人，把大祭司的仆人砍了一刀，削掉了他的右耳。

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Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine village tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains.

除了泽曼特和夏蒙尼等一两个很快出了名的地方外，阿尔卑斯山山区的小村几乎全是高山环抱、与世隔绝的穷乡僻壤。

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I felt alone,cut off from friends, high above the firm earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

That could be good advice. If you strike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that is cut off will fall into your eye.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Ergo, if our universe is just a simulation, there should be a cut off in the spectrum of high energy particles, and low and behold, there is -- the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin or GZK cut off.

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Part of High Street was cut off by waist-deep water and roads in and out of the town were closed.

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In February the Juba government cut off the oil in protest at high transit fees, depriving both countries of revenue they desperately need and helping to cause a global oil-price spike.

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