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
- 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。 - 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。 - Judy is overweight, she needs to slim down.
朱迪身体超重，她需要去减肥。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - If everybody is forced to carry the weight of the seriously fat, then everybody has an interest in seeing them slim down.
如果每个人都被迫承担超级胖人的重负，那么人人都很希望看到他们苗条下来。