They have been cutting down the trees and bulldozing the land.

他们正砍倒树木，推整土地。

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The broadscale cutting down of trees is damaging the environment.

对树木的大规模砍伐正在破坏环境。

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It would have meant cutting down over 200 trees, including oaks and hickories.

这就意味着砍伐200多棵树，包括栎树和山胡桃树。

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But you do have to remember by butterflying, you are cutting down the overall height of that root ball.

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OK. You can see that thing is cutting down the problem in half each time, which is good, but there's one more thing I need to deal with.

这很棒，但是我们还需要处理另外一件事情,让我们仔细来看看,我在开始做之前一直在说，应该先试验试验。

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In fact, it took the same number of steps as it did in the other case, because each time I'm cutting it down by a half.

因为每次我都把问题的规模,缩小一半，这很棒，好，接下来让我们这么做。

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Money could also be saved by cutting rural bus services, and scaling down grass cutting and roads maintenance, including gritting.

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That means output from hydroelectric plants will be down, cutting off a possible source of electricity for the state.

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Today, most conservative plans are of the slash-and-burn variety, to get costs down by cutting benefits, within the context of the existing program.

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