downsize
美 [ˈdaʊnˌsaɪz] 
英 ['daʊnsaɪz]
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现在分词：downsizing 过去式：downsized 第三人称单数：downsizes 反义词
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1. | [i][t] ~ (sth) （公司、企业等）裁员，精减to reduce the number of people who work in a company, business, etc. in order to reduce costs |
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例句
The collapse marks another difficult sales process for GM since it began to downsize its operations more than a year ago.
此宗交易失败，标志着通用汽车自一年多前启动瘦身进程以来又一次艰难的出售经历。
About the time the millennium babies started school and started a new stage of their life, my husband and I decided to downsize.
就在这些千年宝宝入学并开始他们生活的新阶段的时候，我和丈夫决定节俭。
Even through the boom years, organizations continued to restructure and downsize to become evermore effective and competitive.
即使在经济繁荣的年月，企业也要继续机构改革和精简，以便保持效率和竞争力。
The disposal also is a reminder of how much work remains for Citigroup as it tries to downsize.
这次处置也提醒人们，花旗集团在缩减规模的过程中仍有多少工作要做。
Tom sized up the situation, and decided to downsize his business, which turned out to be a wise decision.
汤姆审时度势，决定缩小企业规模，后来证明这是明智之举。
Relationships with our operating partners were deteriorating. The next step was to downsize and re-focus the business.
我们采用的技术太不成熟，和运营伙伴的关系在恶化，下一步还要裁员、重新调整业务重心。
Beside the U. S. re-engaging, trade experts say another requirement for progress on Doha might be to downsize.
贸易专家表示，除了美国再次加入谈判，多哈回合谈判取得进展的另外一项要求可能会弱化。
It is said that the company is going to downsize staff, everyone is feeling anxious.
据说公司要裁员了，大家全都人心惶惶。
My last boss said the sharp drop in market demand reduced orders, they had to cut the cost through downsize.
我前老板说市场需求锐减造成订单减少，他们不得不通过裁员缩减成本。
But really, we're only reacting to you trying to downsize us.
但是事实上，我们只是对你们对我们的小觑做出反应。
One of the company's top priorities is to downsize its staff.
这家公司的优先要务之一就是精简员工。
Many have had to downsize, some have gone out of business and people who had been doing very well are now busy looking for work.
这一来原本干得相当出色的那些人如今却在忙于找工。
Unfortunately, most companies that downsize do so without really knowing the impact on the company's operations.
但遗憾的是大多数削减规模的公司采用了裁员这种方法，但并不真正知道这种方法对公司运作所产生的影响。
The US bank is a leading employer across Asia and its decision to downsize will result in thousands of redundancies in the region.
这家美国银行是亚洲地区的主要雇主，其决定将导致该地区数千人遭到裁减。
But if you do get divorced, be aware you are going to have to downsize your lifestyle from your days as Mrs. Tiger Woods.
但如果确实离婚了，你要注意自己的生活方式将不可与当伍兹夫人时同日而语。
It seems that the only way out is to cut some programs and downsize our organization.
看来唯一的出路是减少一些项目和精简我们的机构。
Sounds like she's going to have to do, on a bigger scale, what a lot of Americans are doing right now: Downsize.
听上去她将不得不向很多美国人眼下正在做的一样：削减支出，只是规模要更大一些。
Not that this is a must, but if you had to radically downsize your life, how would you do this?
这并不是必须，不过如果你不得不全面的降低你的生活质量你将怎么做？
Seems the only way out is to cut some programs and downsize our organization.
看来唯一的出路是减少一些慈善项目和精简我们的机构。
Downsize. In his book A New Earth, author Eckhart Tolle talks about our tendency to identify ourselves, and our self worth, by our things.
缩减规模作者埃克哈特托尔（在他的书一个新世界中）谈论我们会通过一些事去有倾向的找出我们自己，和我们的自我价值。
The decision by Starbucks to downsize its Australian business is a setback for the Seattle-based chain's international ambitions.
星巴克是一家总部位于美国西雅图的咖啡连锁店。该公司缩减澳大利亚业务规模的决定，对其全球扩张的雄心是一次打击。
And now that the economy is downsized, there's growing pressure to downsize the H-1B visa program as well.
因为经济萎缩，H-1B签证面临日益增长的压力不得不进行缩减。
People who downsize are also facing problems, he says, and coming up with the worst solution to abandon dangerous and vulnerable animals.
收入减少的人更是困难重重，以至毫无防备地让那些危险而脆弱的动物放任自流。
Helsinki - Slovenia plans to downsize its armored vehicle procurement ambitions and renegotiate a contract with Patria.
[据防务新闻网站2010年7月21日报道]斯洛文尼亚计划缩减其采购装甲车辆的野心，准备重新与帕特里亚公司谈判合同。
When we decided to downsize our home we took the opportunity to get rid of some "treasures" we no longer needed.
当我们决定搬进小点的房子时，就需要扔掉一些用不上的“宝贝”。
It will also downsize its subsidiary in Singapore and transfer part of the business to Taiwan.
尼康公司还将缩小新加坡的分公司，将部分业务转移到台湾。
Objective: To summarize and analyze signs and symptoms of ectopic appendicitis to downsize diagnostic errors.
目的：对异位阑尾炎的临床症状和体征进行总结分析，以减少误诊。
I know a software which can downsize your picture in size. If you want it, please download it from microsoft. Com. It is a free software.
我知道在微软的网站上有一个软件，可以把照片缩小和放大。可以去下载
These colleges will be forced to either downsize and educate students more cost effectively or close their doors for good.
这些学院将被迫进行精简，提高教育的性价比或者关门。
Dozens of prime examples of "marco-texture" stand empty, as Western companies downsize or withdraw.
当西方的公司瘦身或撤走后，数十幢“庞大结构”的绝好典范空荡荡的矗立着。
We tend to "downsize" each time we move, and I always dread the process.
每次我们搬家都要减少一部分家用，而我就做怕这个。
There isn't any political will to downsize banks and too much fear to threaten bankrupting them.
目前既不存在任何缩小银行规模的政治意愿，也不存在太多威胁让银行破产的恐惧。
Downsize potatoes, pasta, rice and fatty and sugary foods, and super size fruit and vegetables.
减少土豆、意大利面、米跟多糖多脂的食物分量，多吃水果跟蔬菜。
Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.
销售业绩减少很多，所以他们必须缩小规模。
If automakers downsize cars so their fleets use less fuel, occupant safety will be compromised.
如果汽车制造商的汽车，以便缩小其船队使用更少的燃料，乘员安全将受到损害。
Nor would their proposals force existing financial firms to downsize.
政府新推出的建议也不会迫使现有金融公司缩小规模。
CARS: Could you downsize your vehicle? Be a one-car household?
汽车：你能减小交通工具的体积吗？
As with most American brands, Cadillac was forced to downsize its offerings between the 1973 and 1979 fuel crises.
同大多数的美国汽车品牌一样，凯迪拉克汽车被迫降低产量因为1973年和1979年的燃料危机。
The corporation has to downsize its personnel in response to a poor economy.
这家公司因经济不景气而不得不裁员。
If I need to move for a job, downsize my house, or invite others into my home for a stay, I can do so fairly easily.
因工作地点变动需要搬迁，需要住小一点房子，需要邀请别人来我家小住，这些我都可以很容易地办到。
