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

• take off weight
  Synonym:reducemelt offlose weightslimslenderizethin

双语例句

• The market seems to like it when big banks slim down these days, and several are doing just that.
  市场似乎很乐意看到大型银行“瘦身”，最近几家银行在这方面也确实有所行动。
• We know you slim down their thighs and their noses and you lighten their skin.
  我们知道你们修长了她们的大腿和鼻子，提亮了她们的肤色。
• Rivals including Credit Suisse and Barclays have since scaled back investors 'expectations about future profitability as they are forced to slim down or quit riskier businesses and hold a much bigger buffer against potential losses.
  由于被迫删减甚至放弃风险较大的业务，并维持更多的资本金以缓冲潜在亏损，瑞士信贷（CreditSuisse）与巴克莱（Barclays）等竞争对手自那以来已纷纷缩减了投资者对未来盈利能力的预期。
• While HSBC may be on track to slim down, it now has to handle the tricky situation of maintaining a productive workforce when plenty of its people are facing the chopping block.
  汇丰的瘦身大计也许已经走上正轨，但是由于大量员工面临着下岗的压力，如何稳定军心就成为它必须处理的一个棘手问题。
• 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。
• And chewing the stuff might also help you slim down, according to new research from the University of Rhode Island.
  根据美国罗德岛大学的一项最新的研究发现，嚼口香糖也能帮你瘦下来。
• 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。
• One obvious tuning option was to move to UNIX machines, but that was ruled out as impractical-the customer preferred instead to slim down the application.
  最明显的调优方案是转移到unix机器上，但是因为不切实际而被排除掉了客户更愿意让这个应用程序减肥。
• 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。
• 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。