So for example, lopping off a tail is pretty significant damage, but it won't kill the whale.

举例来说，砍掉鲸鱼尾巴是很大的伤害，但它不致死。

Again, lopping off your leg, to clip a toenail.

那里再次切断你的腿夹。

SARS2 virus in your lungs is that it's like lopping off your leg to clip a toenail.

你的肺部就像拍你的腿剪脚趾甲一样没有任何好处。

The problem with trimmed means, however, is that they involve abrupt cliffs, lopping off the top and bottom of the index while giving adjacent percentiles their full weight.

然而，经过调整的数据有个问题，它们包括一些断崖，砍掉了指数的顶部和底部，同时给邻近的百分比以全部权重。