1. Two years ago, a 15-member team at the 115-year-old teaching hospital, under pressure to cut costs from a health maintenance organization (HMO), was given permission by the hospital's top manager to find a way to get the tube removed sooner.
    两年前，出于一家保健组织（HMO）要求减少成本的压力，这家有115年历史的教学医院组建了一支15人小组，他们得到医院总经理的许可来研制一种方法，以便尽早去掉导管。

2. The hospitals had cut way back on the large amounts of pain-killing drugs usually given during and after surgery that were used primarily to control blood pressure, not pain.
    这些医院削减了原本大量使用的止痛药，这些药通常在手术中和手术后都使用，主要是用来控制血压而不是止疼。

3. Next I felt intense fear. Had I cut my head? Was I bleeding? Was there blood in the pool?
    接着便感到十分恐惧。头碰破了吗？流血了吗？游泳池里有没有血？

4. Hay had been cut and cow sheds had been cleaned.
    干草已切好了，牛栏已打扫过了。

5. He revised his story to cut it shorter.
    为了精简故事, 他将其修改了一番。

6. Hay had been cut and cowsheds had been cleaned.
    干草已切好，牛棚也打扫干净了。

7. He cut a small hole in the door of his house, and peeped through this hole.
    他在房门上挖了一个洞。透过洞眼，他窥视、偷看。

8. He wore his mother's old red stockings cut down for ankle socks.
    他所穿的短袜是从妈妈的红色长袜上剪下来的。

9. He also acknowledged that the lowest-priced rooms at the resort had been cut to 550 francs ($110) from 750 francs at the time of the opening, and that some rooms were being offered at 400 francs for the winter season.
    他也承认，度假地的最低房价已从开张时的750法郎降为550法郎（110美元），一些房间的冬季价已降至400法郎。

10. During a single crucial three-week period during our teenage years, chemical activity in the brain is cut in half.
    我们的青少年阶段有一个为期三周的关键时期，此时脑部的化学反应活动一分为二。