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

• 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。
• 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。
• Scientists have been scouring the world in recent decades for all manner of miracle plants that can help people slim down.
  近几十年来科学家们一直在世界各地寻找各种各样的可以帮助人们减肥的神奇植物。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
  许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。