Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot.

宁愿把鞋铰开，也不能让脚受屈。

《新英汉大辞典》

You'd better cut short the lecture.

你最好缩短讲稿的内容。

youdao

You’d better cut short the lecture.

你最好缩短讲稿的内容。

youdao

I would've thought, given the evidence of what Bogdanovich says in that documentary, for instance, if the 4 to 5 minutes has not been cut, it might have been better than Citizen Kane, and maybe one of the few greatest movies that he ever made, maybe the greatest movie, who knows.

举个例子，通过博格达诺维奇,在纪录片中的讲述，如果那45分钟,没有被剪，它可能会比,《公民凯恩》要好，也可能是,他最好的几部电影之一，也可能是最好的，谁知道呢。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

When it came to making a big impression, though, Cyril Smith could not have been better cut out for the role.

BBC: Obituary: Sir Cyril Smith

And Canessa says he'll share more than half of each game's revenue with Arcade developers, a far better cut than they'd get from a publisher.

FORBES: Small game developers have an unlikely ally in Microsoft.

This is where the iPad (or Apple) has an advantage when it comes to tablets (even ignoring the fact that there are only 20 measly tablet apps for Honeycomb and almost 70, 000 for the iPad): Android mainly got pushed by Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile shops (because they had no iPhone, and because most Android OEMs give the shops a better cut than Apple does).

FORBES: Apple iPad Doesn't Need Hideout From Honeycomb