Paul Bunyan was a hero of North America's lumberjacks, the workers who cut down trees.

VOA: special.2011.05.07

When we're doing something that is interactive, we have to cut down on the detail of what we're doing because we can't support that in real time, but nonetheless there're lots of things we can do interactively.

当我们在做一些,互动性的项目时，我们需要减少,正在做的细节,因为在实际时间里,我们并没有足够时间支持它，但是还有很多其他东西,可以做得具有互动性。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They definitely cut down on foreign students.

他们一定会减少外国学生的名额。

英国的极右政党 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They cut down many trees to build the boats.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

If we cut down that grain you don't eat this winter.

如果成功,你们在冬天就没吃的了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Supporters of the law in Arizona say it will help cut down on crime by illegal immigrants from Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

And if the other countries aren't going to cut down on their fishing, then you want to catch the fish now, because there aren't going to be any there tomorrow.

如果其他国家不打算减少捕捞量,那么你现在就想先把鱼都捞起来,因为没准明天就会无鱼可捞了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The Lebanese military says it soldiers opened fire when the Israelis strayed across the border to cut down a tree.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

He does go around and around the same idea a number of times, which does cut down on the notes for the class, " but it can get a little boring."

他的确一遍遍重复同样的观点很多次，从而减少了课程的笔记内容，但是会让人感到有点无聊“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I have to cut down . It is an Indian wedding, so you cannot do without gold, so I have to give,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.

更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But there was no man on the farm to cut it down and sell it.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

A log algorithm typically is one where you cut the size of the problem down by some multiplicative factor.

对数级复杂度的算法就是指,通过一系列常量级步数的操作,可以将问题的规模。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But prices are down sharply now because the recession cut demand for energy.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

My head gets cut in half down here and then you could see the brain.

我的头被切成了两半,一直切到这儿,这就是你们所就看到大脑示意图了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The Postal Service also wants to shut down some post offices and cut back on funding health care for retired mail carriers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

And nobody knows, nobody believes that we can cut spending, right? -Somebody down the road has to pay the bills Somebody down the road has to pay the bills, either by cutting spending, cutting benefits or raising taxes.

而几乎没人相信,政府能够成功节流，不是吗？，-那总得,有人来埋单啊,迟早要有人来为此埋单的，要么精简政府开支，削减福利，要么增税。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

During the conference, international donors also voiced their support for President Karzai's offer to reconcile and reintegrate elements of the Taliban who lay down their weapons, support the constitution and cut ties with terrorist organizations.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

When it cuts it leaves sticky ends or un-base paired single stranded regions on each end of the part its cut and that's just a property of many restriction enzymes; not all, some cut blunt,just right down the middle.

它切割后会留下两个粘性末端,或者未配对的单链部分,这是许多限制性内切酶的特性,但不是全部,有些限制性内切酶是从中间钝切的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If everyone else is cutting down I don't have too, and if everyone else does cut down I don't have to, I end up using hot water and driving a big car and so on.

如果大家都想减排,我没必要跟风,如果别人真的减排了又与我何干,我照样用着热水,开着大排量汽车

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选