to cut down

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While this is sure to cut down the food we waste, I’m not sure it will save us any money.
当然这样在一定程序上会减少食物的浪费，我不知道它会节省多少钱。
If I had a leg of lamb for every time I heard a woman tell me that she has given up red meat to cut down her fat and “be healthy”, I could open a butcher's shop.
每次当我听到一个女人跟我说她为了减少她的脂肪和保持健康状态而放弃红肉时，我想如果我有一只羊羔腿，我可以去开肉店。
Although she had only one arm, she didn’t believe in sparing the rod, or, in her case, the paddle, into which she had bored holes to cut down on the wind resistance.
尽管她只有一只胳膊，却信奉“棒下出高徒”的教条。她使用的是一根扁条刑杖，中间钻了些小洞，以减少风阻，不会造成真实的伤害。

The Lebanese military says it soldiers opened fire when the Israelis strayed across the border to cut down a tree.
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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And if the other countries aren't going to cut down on their fishing, then you want to catch the fish now, because there aren't going to be any there tomorrow.
如果其他国家不打算减少捕捞量,那么你现在就想先把鱼都捞起来,因为没准明天就会无鱼可捞了
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