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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To what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports?

为了减少进口，美国人在多大程度上真的愿意忍受国内能源生产对环境的影响？

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You just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings, so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher-order thinking.

你只要切断相关的神经末梢，这样我们就不能再进行更高层次的思考了。

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"We have to give them guarantees that we have taken the power not to cut everything but in order to improve."

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OK. Binary search is perhaps the simplest of the divide and conquer algorithms, and what does that mean? It says, in order to solve a problem, cut it down to a smaller problem and try and solve that one.

好了，二分搜索也许是,最简单的分治算法，这意味着什么？,也就是说，为了解决一个问题,把它切割成小的问题,然后再来一个个解决。

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I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

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But while the administration has lifted a corner of the curtain to provide a sense of where spending for popular government initiatives will be increased, what's not known is what programs will have to be cut in order to fund others.

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With growth stalled, the pressure is on governments across Europe, not just ones using the single currency, to cut spending in order to meet debt obligations.

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The reason is that when there are signs of economic turmoil (think of the summer of 2008) businesses look to cut costs in order to maintain profitability.

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