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

• And chewing the stuff might also help you slim down, according to new research from the University of Rhode Island.
  根据美国罗德岛大学的一项最新的研究发现，嚼口香糖也能帮你瘦下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Can you slim down by kissing too much?
  经常接吻能减肥么？
• 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。
• Those already overweight at the start of the two-year course would score double points if they managed to slim down over a period of two years.
  对于在两年课程学习前期阶段已经超重的学生，如果在接下来的两年时间里能成功瘦下来，那他们可以得到双倍的分数。