I would be waiting every day with bated breath wondering when the ax was going to fall.

我每天都屏息等待，不知道什么时候斧子会掉下来。

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Mary got the ax.

玛丽被炒鱿鱼了。

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So which companies get the ax as we start 2011?

2011年开始我们剔除哪些公司呢？

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the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

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If the Ax and Ay, some are positive and some are negative, this is the way by which we have learned we should combine multiples of i.

如果 Ax 和 Ay 有正有负,这就要用到我们所学过的方法,将所有 i 的倍数加起来

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the Ax prime will drop off.

x 就被消去了

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Or, more to the point, cut other costs before you give people the ax.

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Then, just as the ax falls, she cries out that her mother has finally been avenged.

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In a Facebook post (since deleted) SendGrid announced it had given Richards the ax.

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