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.- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。 - ...the plan to slim down the coal industry.
精减煤炭从业人员的计划
- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
- → see:slim 2
英英释义
verb
- take off weight
双语例句
- No matter which diet you choose, though, you have to stick to it if you really want to slim down.
如果你真希望减肥，那么不论你选择哪种节食方法，都必须坚持下去。 - Why you should skip it: it seems to make sense: the sight of those pants or the ads with fashion models wearing them might motivate you to slim down.
为什么不可取：听起来似乎很有道理：看着那些裤子，或者看到广告里时装模特们穿着那些裤子可能会激发你想减肥的欲望。 - Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。 - He feels like dieting to slim down.
他很想节制饮食来减肥。 - 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。 - 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。 - Whether you're the life of the party, a bookworm or a night owl, your personality plays a surprisingly large role in your ability to slim down.
不论你是派对狂、大书虫还是夜猫子，你的性格都会极大地影响你的减肥能力。 - 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。 - She tells me that I'll feel better about myself if I slim down.
她告诉我说，如果我减肥了，就会感觉舒服得多。 - 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。