So like a debtor who decides that it's easier to ask for a raise than chop up his credit cards, Team Obama decided to focus on boosting American power, not reducing American obligations.

于是就像一个认为多赚钱比捏碎信用卡更容易的负债者一样，奥巴马之队决定集中力量增强美国国力而不是减少美国的责任。

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On the second day, when he went up the mountain to chop firewood and at the side of a tree he found his lost axe.

第二天，他上山砍柴时在一棵树边上发现了丢失的斧子。

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All summer long Bill and his ranch-hands taught us to ride horse, chop wood, and round up cattle.

整个夏天都长比尔和他的农场的手告诉我们骑骑马，劈木柴，并围捕牛。

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Even Baitullah Mehsud had struggled to rein in the violent excesses of Hakimullah and his cousin Qari Hussain, another TTP commander, who likes to chop up his victims with a knife and to brainwash children into becoming suicide-bombers.

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Now Serebryakov wants to chop up the surrounding forests and sell off the land, leaving Vanya with only his own wasted life to contemplate.

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The defendant said he could not remember his thought process when he decided to buy a chainsaw to chop up the body, an extra freezer, gloves and overalls.

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