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
- The Home Office will keep its name, but will slim down its responsibilities to concentrate on terrorism, security and immigration.
内政部将保留名称不变,但将削减它的指责;转而一心一意负责恐怖主义、安全和移民问题。 - Judy is overweight, she needs to slim down.
朱迪身体超重,她需要去减肥。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You have to slim down your holiday plans since costs have risen so much.
既然费用上涨得这么厉害,你们必须削减假日计划安排。 - 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。 - Weight loss-estimated to lose weight and are trying to lose weight but have a lot of the MM, but, in and to "slim down" for a protracted war games, he was unable to see what results, which is Why?
减肥&估计正在减肥和正想减肥的MM们可是不少,可是,在和“减肥”进行了一场场旷日持久的战争后,也未能见什么成效,这是为什么呢? - So what about those naturally gluten-free foods, such as meat, fish, fruit and vegetables? Are they going to help us slim down?
那么,像猪肉、鱼肉、以及水果蔬菜这类的天然无麸质食品会不会帮助我们瘦身呢?