Yeah, We'd get rid of 90 Civil Servants at a stroke.

对，一下子就裁掉了 90 名公务员。

At a stroke, this demolishes the long tradition of universal benefits, which was intended to secure general support for welfare.

这便一举打破了全民福利的长期传统，而实行全民福利是为了得到公众对福利制度的广泛 支持。

That would, at a stroke, eliminate 3 or 4 million jobs?

这会一下子消除 3 或 400 万个工作岗位？

At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed.

她一下子刺中了范德卢顿夫妇，他们倒下了。

Their greatest fear, that of being engulfed in love, disappears at a stroke and reveals something that is normally utterly submerged in their character: a fear of being abandoned.

他们最大的恐惧就是被爱窒息，而当这种恐惧一瞬间消失，他们发现了自己性格中平时完全隐藏的部分：就是对被抛弃的恐惧。

In America, thirty genera of large animals-some very large indeed-disappeared practically at a stroke after the arrival of modern humans on the continent between ten and twenty thousand years ago.

在2万年前到1万年前，在现代人类到达美洲大陆之后，在那里有30种大型动物——有的确实非常大——简直是一下子消失了。

They condemned at a stroke not just fast foods or sugary snacks, but also many foods which have been reformulated to seem health-giving, from " lite" margarines to vitamin-fortified breakfast cereals.

他们一下子谴责的不仅是快餐和含糖零食，还谴责了许多从“低热量”人造黄油到维生素强化早餐麦片等经重新配方后看起来有益健康的食品。

" As a momentary, passionate wish to grasp intuitively and at a stroke all the laws of this world — its beauty and ugliness, its compassion and cruelty, its infinity and its limitations."

“是一种瞬间的、充满激情的愿望，想凭直觉一下子掌握这个世界的所有规律——它的美与丑，它的同情与残酷，它的无限与局限。”

The fact was that her unexpected presence there had destroyed at a stroke his momentary taste for strong liquor as completely as if it had whisked him back to his milk-fed infancy.

事实上，她突然出现在那里， 一下子摧毁了他对烈酒的短暂嗜好， 仿佛把他带回了吃奶的婴儿期。

Whatever the legality of his decision to fire so many Twitter workers, his methods are brutal: people locked out of corporate IT accounts, careers ended with an impersonal email, half the workforce gone at a stroke.

无论他解雇这么多推特员工的决定是否合法，他的方法都很残酷，比如封禁企业IT账户，用一封没有人情味的电子邮件掐断职业生涯，一口气裁掉半数员工等等。