JCPenney has already taken the painful step to cut more than 100 stores and layoff thousands of workers.

JCPenney已经迈出了痛苦的一步，削减了100多家商店，裁减了数千名员工。

Cutting steps cuts costs and increases customer satisfaction.

削减步骤可降低成本并提高客户满意度。

A number of EU states, including Germany, have also been taking steps to cut energy use and drawing up plans for more drastic cutbacks if necessary.

包括德国在内的一些欧盟国家也在采取措施减少能源使用，并制定计划，在必要时进行更大幅度的削减。

If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.

就算我们真正发现了问题所在，也不过是迈出了第一步，接着还有第二步：那就是从复杂的事件中找到解决办法。

Approaching this opening, they gazed within it and found a series of steps, cut so that they might easily descend into the cavern.

接近这个开口，他们凝视着里面，发现了一系列的台阶，这样他们就可以很容易地进入洞穴。

From the front door an irregular series of rough and misshapen steps, cut in the solid rock, led down to the edge of the streamlet, which, at their extremity, was hollowed into a basin through which the water trickled.

从前门开始，在坚硬的岩石上开凿出一系列不规则的粗糙和畸形的台阶，通向小溪的边缘，小溪的尽头被挖空成一个盆地，水从中滴流。