Sentence examples of "cutting" in English
That was a 'cutting the Gordian knot' type of solution.
Esa fue una solución del tipo "cortar el nudo gordiano"
One hot summer afternoon, John and Dan were cutting the long grass.
Una tarde calurosa de verano John y Dan estaban cortando la hierba larga.
Scissors are meant for cutting but can also be used to stab.
Las tijeras son para cortar pero pueden usarse también para apuñalar.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Los alemanes tienen una forma inhumana de cortar sus verbos. Un verbo ya lo pasa bastante mal cuando está entero. Es completamente inhumano partirlo. Pero eso es exactamente lo que hacen los alemanes. Cogen una parte del verbo y la ponen aquí, como una estaca, y cogen la otra parte y la ponen allá a lo lejos, como otra estaca, y simplemente cavan en alemán entre estos dos límites.
You should cut down on the amount of fattening food that you eat.
Deberías reducir la cantidad de grasas que comes.
Since I installed solar panels on my house my energy bill has been cut in half.
Desde que instalé paneles solares en mi casa la factura de la luz se me ha reducido a la mitad.
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