But as soon as you cut off one leg of the stool, prepare to meet the floor.

但只要您砍掉凳子的一条腿，那就准备掉在地上吧。

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Once you weaken one leg, the stool begins to lose its balance and fall.

一旦你踢松了其中一条凳腿，整张凳子就开始失去平衡，接而倒塌。

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He stood on a small stool, brushing his teeth at the side of the pool, and then he slipped and fell down and scraped his leg.

他站在小凳子上，在水池边刷牙，然后他滑了一下，摔倒的时候刮了他的腿。

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"I looked at it as a four-legged stool with one leg very deep in the ocean, " recalls Fluxman, a tanned, toned South African who first came aboard as chief financial officer and chief operating officer, stepping up to chief executive officer six years ago.

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That could leave Mr Chavez increasingly reliant on the third leg of the stool: the armed forces' high command.

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Now, the recovery and reinvestment package is not the only thing we have to do -- it's one leg of the stool.

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