In a recession, consumers could be expected to cut down on nonessentials like toys.

经济衰退时，消费者有可能会缩减玩具等非必需品的消费。

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Most schools are extremely unwilling to cut down on staff in order to cut costs.

大多数学校都极不愿意为了减少开支而裁员。

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Most of employers are planning to cut down on wages instead of laying off employees in response to the economic depression.

为了应对经济萧条，大多数雇主正计划降低工资，而不是裁员。

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For years, might?" doctors have been telling patients to cut down on saturated fats - the kinds of fats in meats and milk,for example.

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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。

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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。

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In recent years officials have repeatedly called on manufacturers to use less elaborate packaging in order to cut down on waste and make mooncakes more affordable.

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WarZ raised the player limit on servers to 70, in order to cut down on the active servers.

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In 2008, the city switched to a standardized, test-based admissions system in an attempt to cut down on favoritism that it said existed in the previous system, which allowed different districts to set their own rules.

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