He used his knife to cut off half his right arm.

他用刀砍断了自己一半的右臂。

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Salaries are stagnant or lower, hourly workers are seeing their shifts cut, and about half the people who've been laid off and found new jobs over the past year have had to settle for less pay.

薪水不涨甚至降低，小时工看到他们的工资减少，大约有一半的人在过去的几年中被解雇，勉强接受工资较低的新工作。

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Winter storms cut perhaps half a percentage point off growth from January to March, according to some estimates.

按照某些人的估计，从一月到三月，冬季暴风雪可能将增长率消减了半个百分点。

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Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.

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The northern half of the country is largely cut off from the more commercially vibrant south.

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Still a bull, Dent predicted equities would skyrocket with the Dow Jones Industrial hitting 40, 000 by the end of the decade. 2007 was the year stocks started a sell-off that would cut the Dow in half.

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