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slim down

英 [slɪm daʊn]

美 [slɪm daʊn]

(通过节食)减肥,变苗条; 精简(机构); 裁减(人员)

柯林斯词典

  • PHRASAL VERB-ERG 精简(机构);裁减(人员)
    If a company or other organizationslims downoris slimmed down, it employs fewer people, in order to save money or become more efficient.
    1. Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
      许多公司几乎别无选择,只能裁员。
    2. ...the plan to slim down the coal industry.
      精减煤炭从业人员的计划
  • → see:slim 2

英英释义

verb

双语例句

  • Scientists have been scouring the world in recent decades for all manner of miracle plants that can help people slim down.
    近几十年来科学家们一直在世界各地寻找各种各样的可以帮助人们减肥的神奇植物。
  • Those already overweight at the start of the two-year course would score double points if they managed to slim down over a period of two years.
    对于在两年课程学习前期阶段已经超重的学生,如果在接下来的两年时间里能成功瘦下来,那他们可以得到双倍的分数。
  • More than a third of women deliberately buy clothes which are too small for them because they are determined to slim down enough to fit into them one day, it found.
    调查发现,超过三分之一的女性特地购买很小的衣服,因为她们下定决心减肥到足够的苗条直至能穿下去为止。
  • They are now under pressure to slim down their balance-sheets quickly, partly to shore up capital and partly because of funding strains.
    但现在它们承受了迅速压缩其资产负债表的压力,这部分出于加强资本的需要,部分出于资金紧缺。
  • Dresdner's investment bank will not be the only one to slim down riskier activities such as proprietary trading.
    德瑞斯顿银行的投行将削减像自由资金交易这样更具风险的业务,它将不会是唯一的一家。
  • He feels like dieting to slim down.
    他很想节制饮食来减肥。
  • We will not see them until September, when they return filled with a post-holiday determination to slim down and tone up, before disappearing again a fortnight later.
    然后我们一直见不到他们,直到9月份,当他们重返健身俱乐部时,满怀着假日结束后的决心,想要瘦身,想要健壮,然后在两周之内再一次消失得无影无踪。
  • In a country famous for its pastries the new fat tax is being introduced in a beat to slim down Denmark's population and cut heart desease.
    丹麦以面点闻名,新开征的脂肪税,意在让国民变得苗条,减少心脏病发病几率。
  • Judy is overweight, she needs to slim down.
    朱迪身体超重,她需要去减肥。
  • Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
    许多公司几乎别无选择,只能裁员。