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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• Can you slim down by kissing too much?
  经常接吻能减肥么？
• 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。
• 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。