The illicit economy robs legitimate markets by undercutting legitimate businesses.

非法经济通过削减法商贸交易的方式夺走了法市场。

Meta cut its workforce by 13 percent.

Meta 公司削减了13%的员工。

But he wants to cut the school budget!

但他想削减学校的预算！

" I expect (carry-out) to give us maybe 30 percent of business, but we cut down our overhead by 80 percent so we should be able to be okay, " he says.

“我希望（外卖服务）能帮餐厅挽回30%的生意，但是我们削减了80%的日常管理费用，所以我们应该可以度过难关。”

Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded

削减低薪劳动的税收，扩大工资收入补贴，如增加所得税抵免。

The United States Federal Reserve has announced a farther reduction in its policy of quantitative easing, or buying financial assets with newly created money.

美联储宣布对其量化宽松政策做进一步的削减，或用新印刷的货币来购买金融资产。

The budget is his attempt to move closer to a " grand bargain" he sought in debt and deficit reduction talks with Republican Party lawmakers.

他希望通过该预算计划实现他与共和党议员就债务与赤字削减对话的大妥协。

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump had promised to reduce America's trade deficits.

作为总统候选人的时候，特朗普就承诺削减美国的贸易逆差。

Business owners and CEOs may curtail future investment and consumer spending, the biggest driver of U.S. economic activity, probably won't bounce back immediately either.

企业家和CEO们很可能会削减在未来的投资，而对于消费性支出——美国最大的经济活动推动，也不会立马就重新振作起来。

America's NATO allies were disappointed that promising arms reduction initiatives never materialized.

美国的北约盟友们对于本来颇有希望的武器削减计划未能落实在纸面上感到颇为失望。

The staff is in an uproar about these budget cuts.

员工们正在为预算削减的事儿闹呢，屋里一片嘈杂。

They want countries to commit to steep cuts in green house gas emissions over the next 15 years and binding targets for how much energy comes from renewable resources.

他们希望各国能大幅度削减未来15年的温室气体排放量，并对新能源在能源中占多大份额设置约束性的目标。

So they ignore the data, they try to cut funding for climate research — because they know it will undermine their political argument.

因此，他们忽略了这些数据，试图削减气候研究的资金——因为他们知道，这将导致他们的政治立场站不住脚。

A union accused the government of cutting the tax agencies funding to help funnel $300 million in pay rises to the police.

一个工会指控政府削减税务机构的资金，以筹3亿美元给警察部门加薪。

The president campaigned on reducing troops, of course, and he's been telegraphing troop cuts in Iraq for weeks, if not months.

总统在竞选中呼吁削减军队，当然，即使没有几个，那也可以说数周来他一直在透露削减驻伊美军的决定。

The White House says it's the biggest spending reduction in presidential history.

白宫称这是总统历史上最大的开支削减。

It included a 20 percent increase in teacher pay over the next three years and additional funding to make up for some of the cuts to education that took place back in a recession.

其中包括在未来三年增加20%的教师工资，以及在经济衰退中削减教育经费的额外拨款。

Cost-cutting lay-offs in the 1980s reduce the professional and managerial ranks, leaving fewer people to get the job done.

20世纪80年代为了削减成本进行的裁员，减少了专业和管理运作经费，只留下较少员工完成工作。

He says the ongoing shutdown has drastically cut down his sales.

他表示，当前的停摆极大的削减了他的销售额。

And of course, it literally halves the cost of the fence.

当然，这能削减围栏一半的成本。