The new ship cut her cable and slipped into the water.
新船砍缆下水。
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On the other hand, poor people have an excellent motive to cutcable and simply replace it with an antenna or nothing at all, he said.
他说,从另一方面讲,穷人有更充分的理由来剪断有线电视线,而简单的换成天线或者什么也不用。
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Anyone can make the decision to do without the necessary, to cut off cable TV, to consider doing without a car, to only buy what's absolutely necessary and to rethink what's necessary.