1·His doctor prescribed starvation and bloodletting, which only exaggerated his symptoms.
医生给他开的处方是饥饿疗法和放血疗法，结果却只是加剧了他的症状。
2·Bloodletting and leeches were once the normal way of treating most illnesses until smart people started questioning the practice.
放血和用水蛭吸血一度是治疗病患的常用方式，直到聪明人开始质疑这一做法。
3·As it happened, even AIG's rescue did not stop the bloodletting.
一旦这种后果产生，即使拯救AIG也不能停止这次大放血。
4·It was a necessary detour that expanded his emotional palette; a bloodletting after a harsh breakup and the passing of his mother that manifests itself in Twisted Fantasy's harshest lows.
这是扩大他的感情调色板的一条必要的迂回路线——在一次绝情的分手和他母亲的过世后的大放血——在Twisted Fantasy的最低点表露无遗。
5·Great names such as Pan Am had disappeared. Others had survived only by dint of huge bloodletting: IBM sacked 122,000 people, a quarter of its workforce, between 1990 and 1995.
著名的泛美航空公司消失了,其他行业巨头们靠大幅度放血才生存下来:1990年到1995年间,IBM裁员四分之一,约12万2千人.那时候大家都认为未来属于像Yahoo!