cut down to

常见例句

On the left, some want banks cut down to size.
左派中，有人想要银行削减规模。
Conservatives might normally be delighted to see the BBC—generally depicted as a den of lefties—cut down to size.
BBC被普遍看成是左派人士的巢穴，因此保守派通常乐意看到BBC进行一定程度的削减。
Such knowledge can lead to excessive risk-taking and is one reason why Switzerland’s central bank has said the country’s two mega-banks may have to be cut down to size.
这样的认识会导致额外的风险并且也是为什么瑞士中央银行说其国家的两个大银行必须被削减规模的原因。

But there was no man on the farm to cut it down and sell it.
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。
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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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He said pointedly this week that he wanted the oligarchs cut down to size.
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In short, Jordan, bereft of its famous ruler, will be cut down to size.
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But the ratio says that if there is something that needs to be cut down to size, it's government.
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