He who despises small thing seldom grows rich. able to make fine distinctions.

distinction She treated all the children alike without distinction.

n.区别；差别；特性她给孩子们同样的待遇，没有区别。

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Measurement of penalty is a judicial activity in the criminal trial process that the court decides if the defendant should be punished, what punishment should be sentenced and the weight of the punishment, after the defendant is convicted and the accusation is confirmed.

量刑是指法庭在刑事案件审理过程中，在认定被告人有罪并确定罪名之后，裁量对被告人是否判处刑罚、判处何种刑罚以及刑罚幅度的司法活动。

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Q: In April of this year the company I was working for as a program manager was experiencing an extreme downturn, so they had a major reduction in force.

问：2008年4月，我担任项目经理的这家公司业务严重滑坡，公司裁掉了很多人。

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But, as it grapples with the economic downturn, Macquarie has taken an unusual backwards step by making about 60 people redundant in its 590-strong infrastructure investment team.

但在经济低迷形势下，麦格理采取了不寻常的倒退举措，在其基础设施投资团队的590多名员工中裁掉大约60人。

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Although previous cuts had been focused on investment bankers in New York and London, about 2500 jobs losses were expected in Switzerland this time.

尽管以往裁员都集中在位于纽约和伦敦的投资银行部门，但预计此次将在瑞士裁掉大约2500人。

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But to reduce operational costs, it seemed certain that we were going to have to lay off hundreds of them.

然而，为了降低运营成本，裁掉其中几百人看来在所难免。

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Sony Ericsson management expects several more quarters of falling sales and the company has laid off thousands of people.

公司的管理层估计公司的销售还会继续低迷几个季度而且计划裁掉更多的人。

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In banking roles over the past 10 years or so I have made a lot of people redundant.

过去10年左右在银行业的工作中，我裁掉了许多人。

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The company also reduced its headcount by 200 staffers in the fourth quarter.

该公司在2012年第四季度还裁掉了200人。

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And the forest land bearing is 885116 ( people). It will have saturated in 24 years ( or in 2013) according to the present growth rate. Thus it can be seen that the prospect of population bearing capacity in x x county is not optimistic.

林地承裁885116（人），若按目前人口增长率增长，则24年后亦即2013年××县人口将达到饱和，由此可见××县土地人口承裁力不容乐观。

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I've been through several downturns, and you really don't want to be cutting lots of people if you can avoid it, says one investment banking veteran.

我经历过几次低迷时期，但凡可能，你真的不想裁掉很多人，一位投资银行业的资深员工表示。

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But many senior bankers admit privately that they are preparing to make lay-offs numbering into the hundreds later this year should the situation fail to improve.

但许多资深银行家私下里承认，如果到今年晚些时候情况仍没有改善，他们准备届时裁掉数百人。

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As companies' hiring freezes start to thaw, many laid-off individuals may see a chance to regain a position in their old companies.

许多冻结招聘的公司开始解冻，在这个时候，很多曾被裁掉的人或许有机会在以前的公司重新获得一份工作。

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Langford: I seriously doubt.... that if a paper like The Sentinel just cut 100 jobs that anybody's hiring right now.

我非常怀疑。如果连《哨兵报》这样的报社都裁掉一百人，那还有哪家会招人呢？

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Not all those made redundant are heading home.

不是所有被裁掉的人都打算回国。

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Maybe some cuts will be good for the company.

也许裁掉一些人对公司会有好处的。

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A part-timer hired last fall by a retailing client of Flexperience, a Burlingame, Calif., consulting firm, thought she'd be the first to be laid off, says Sally Thornton, president of Flexperience.

加州咨询公司Flexperience的总裁萨利·桑顿（Sally Thornton）说，该公司的一个零售客户去年秋天雇了一个兼职者，这个人以为自己会是第一个被裁掉的人。

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Not only were they closing the factory but the workers who were losing their jobs were getting less than those who left before.

他们不仅关闭了工厂，而且因此而失业的工人们得到的补偿金比之前被裁的人要少。

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Goldman is likely to send an additional 4,400 people from its investment banking division packing.

高盛可能会在投行业务部门再裁4400人。

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Orion's next flight, also without people aboard, is not expected until 2018, and the first ride for astronauts would not occur until at least 2021.

“猎户座”的下一次非载人飞行任务预计将在2018年进行，它的首次裁人飞行最早也是2021年了。

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