In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he (man) has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that with them he has lost the best friends (who) he had.

人类急于从树木身上尽快得到利益，就大量砍伐树木，结果却发现树木砍掉后，人类就失去了最好的朋友。

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The building's undulating cladding is made up of a series of aluminium sections - a technique selected to be quick and easy to assemble, and to therefore cut the cost of construction.

建筑的波状的外表面由一系列铝型材料形成。技术上挑选快且简便的装配方法，因此缩短了建筑费。

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By using a technology of non-stopping slurry cushion grouting to cut-off water, the difficult problem of quick grouting to cut-off water under the complicated condition of rush flow was solved.

通过采用无止浆垫注浆堵水技术，解决了复杂涌水条件下快速注浆堵水的难题。

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It sounds like you're trying to really cut to the quick.

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And we may learn how to cut it to the quick.

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The loss of one of them, fictional as it was, cut me to the quick.

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