cut-short

基本解释

Success depends on the efforts made. There is no cut-short on the way of life-long English learning.
成功取决于你做出的努力，在漫长的英语学习过程中，没有任何捷径可言。
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He will need to promise that the ECB will continue to back embattled but solvent governments by buying their bonds; support a big debt reduction for Greece; and cut short-term interest rates.
他需要做出承诺，即欧洲央行将会通过购买身陷泥淖但却仍然有偿付能力的国家的债券来继续支持这些国家；支持大幅削减欧洲债务；以及降低短期利率。
Central banks cannot cut short-term rates any further.
央行无法进一步降低短期利率。

Flanken-cut beef short rib (short rib cut across the bone into half-inch thick strips — you may need to ask your butcher to do this) is a wonder, but hangar steak, skirt steak, even flank steak (marinated overnight) will work well too.
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Since then, futures prices have been predicting a 50 basis-point cut in short-term interest rates by April.
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His half-point cut in short-term interest rates was designed to avoid a recession, but it may have bought him only a postponement of the inevitable.
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