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。
• This came after an earlier pledge to lose weight made in January on BBC Radio Sussex, in which the prime minister called his efforts to slim down a great patriotic struggle.
  今年1月，首相卡梅伦在BBC萨塞克斯电台节目中发誓减肥，说自己的减肥是伟大的爱国行动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He feels like dieting to slim down.
  他很想节制饮食来减肥。
• 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。
• Can you slim down by kissing too much?
  经常接吻能减肥么？
• 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。