If you want to get rid of a tree growing in your garden and cut it down, it will grow again quite fast, but if you stop irrigating the tree, it will gradually wither.

如果你想通过砍伐除去你花园中的一棵树，它会很快地重新生长起来，但如果你停止灌溉它，它却会逐渐枯萎。

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Thanks to that, and undoubtedly the knowledge that most owners were using it for streaming, Apple removed the hard drive from the device, and cut it down in size and price.

苹果也意识到了大家都在使用流媒体播放内容，因此他们在新版的Apple TV中去掉了硬盘，减少了体积也降低了价格。

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I had to cut down a tree and enlist the help of seven neighbours to get it out of the garden!

我不得不砍了一棵树，然后找了7位邻居帮忙把它从院子里弄出去。

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But there was no man on the farm to cut it down and sell it.

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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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That high level of cholesterol makes them more likely to have heart attacks, and it should make it easier to cut down on the buildup of artery plaque.

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But they're looking at maybe even doing another space walk and maybe they should cut it into shreds so that as they came down and passed through, you know, Mach 12 it would break up into small pieces and wouldn't really pose as much of a threat.

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The 27-tonne tree is diseased with fungi and the owner wants it cut down as he would be liable for any damage caused should it fall.

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