retrench

retrench

美 [rɪˈtrentʃ] 　英 [rɪ'trentʃ]

• v.紧缩开支；节约；缩减（人员）
• 网络节省；减少；削减

词形变化

第三人称单数：retrenches  现在分词：retrenching  过去式：retrenched  

同义词

英汉双解

英汉解释

v.	1. 节省,减省,削减,缩减,减少(经费等);删除,省略(字句等);截去,割去,修剪 2. 【建】设内郭,筑内墙 3. 俭约,节省

英英解释

v.	1. to reduce costs or the amount that you spend, in order to save money 2. to stop employing someone because there is no more work for them

例句

"Even cutting the F-35 entirely would not yield" the kind of savings it takes to retrench to a $500 billion annual defense budget, he said.

他说：“即使削减全部的F-35也不能形成”需要省出的资金，以将每年国防预算控制在5000亿美元以内。

They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.

他们必须节省开支，这是毋庸置疑的。

Wall Street firms, which often retrench in downturns, have been nudged down the rankings.

往往在衰退时紧缩业务的华尔街公司已经处于排名的末尾。

World exporters are increasingly relying on China as consumers in the U. S. and Europe retrench.

当欧洲和美国商人削减费用的时候，全球的出口正愈来愈依赖中国。

This suggests that governments wanting to retrench, but worried about social instability, should consider tax increases, first and foremost.

这也启发了我们，若政府想要紧缩开支又担心危害到社会稳定，或许他们应首先考虑提高税率。

Next, we need to retrench, to reconsider the direction of research on this disease.

接下来，我们需要紧缩开支，重新考虑这个疾病的研究方向。

Fearful consumers, businesses and markets will retrench further, causing economic decline to accelerate.

恐慌的消费者、企业和市场将进一步紧缩开支，加速经济下滑。

If Japanese companies and investors retrench, selling some Treasuries and investing fewer yen overseas, the pain here could grow.

如果日本公司和日本投资者缩减在美投资，卖掉美国国债，美国的情况就会更加不容乐观。

Leadership changes at other banks coincide with big questions about their future strategy: will UniCredit retrench?

对于其他银行而言，伴随着高层更迭的都是关于银行未来战略的大问题：意大利联合信贷要消减支出吗？

Hopes of a U. S. -led recovery have faded as American consumers retrench.

鉴于美国消费者削减开支，以美国为主导的经济复苏的希望已经破灭。

The more they do so, the bigger the burden of Japan's debt becomes, and the more households and firms are likely to retrench.

物价下降的越多，日本债务负担也就会变得越重，更多的家庭和企业也会开始压缩支出。

But, certainly, there is plenty of supply in the system so prices should retrench back to the $75 to $85 range .

不过，当然，石油系统中有着充足的供应，因此油价应该回归到每桶75美元至85美元的区间。

Even as Chinese stock markets retrench, two purchasing-manager surveys out Tuesday offered fresh signs of China's growth.

即便中国股市大幅下滑，周二公布的两大采购经理人指数仍然带来了中国经济增长的新迹象。

Reliance on Chinese and other emerging market growth could hardly be guaranteed if their main commercial markets started to retrench.

依赖于中国和其它新兴市场的增长是非常不可靠的做法。

It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply.

它不是保守消极的政策，更不是收缩货币供应。

While private banks retrench, state ones are expanding their lending vigorously.

私人银行收缩的同时，国有银行大幅度扩张贷款规模。

Credit will shrink, businesses will wait to hire and expand, and consumers will further retrench.

如此一来，信贷将收缩、企业将推迟招聘与扩张、消费者将进一步削减开支。

Households will retrench as unemployment rises and those with jobs fear they may lose them.

家庭由于失业的增加和对可能失业的恐惧而将紧缩开支。

"Historically, many firms see the challenges and retrench. We see opportunities. "

“历史上，许多公司看到挑战后就采取缩减措施。而我们从中看到的则是机遇。”

As a result, Southwest can profitably add flights to attractive markets, even as other carriers are forced to retrench.

结果，西南航空可以在有吸引力的市场增加航班，还能有利可图，而其他运营商却不得不缩减规模。

It is not obvious, in addition, who would act as the world's "borrower of last resort" , should US households retrench.

此外，如果美国家庭紧缩开支，看不出来谁会成为全球“最后的借款人”。

real wage rises when technology deflects to retrench capital.

技术进步偏向利用劳动、节约资本时，实际工资呈上升趋势。

Demand for credit is lower, as companies and consumers retrench.

由于企业和消费者缩紧支出，信贷的需求降低了。

Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.

灾难预言者坚持认为，政府违约就在眼前：赶紧忏悔和缩减开支吧，否则就太晚了。

Is the credit crunch forcing firms to retrench directly?

信用紧缩会直接迫使企业紧缩开支吗？

As business is bad these days, we have to retrench.

由于最近生意不景气，我们不得不紧缩开支。

Russians Retrench as Crisis Evokes Memories of 1998 'Nightmare'

俄罗斯人被危机带回98年的恶梦

We must retrench to keep out of debt.

我们必须节省开支以免债务缠身。

Growth in China, for instance, will undoubtedly slow, as its major western customers retrench.

例如，中国的经济增长无疑会放缓，因为其主要的西方国家客户减少了。

Assume that many of the latter now retrench.

假设许多赤字国家现在都开始收缩财政。

Sure, consumers have lost a good part of their wealth, and this is reason enough for them to retrench.

当然，消费者的财富造成了大量的损失，这足以让他们开始节约。

That means they don't need to retrench.

这也意味着他们不需要收缩。

But is it already time to retrench?

但现在已到了紧缩的时候吗？

They had to retrench in order to buy a new house .

他们为了买一套新房子不得不节省开支。

Since a clean default is impossible, governments will have no choice but to retrench, however painful the consequences. Martin Wolf

由于单纯的违约不可能发生，相关国家政府将没有选择，只能缩减开支，无论结果如何痛苦。

Refrigerated Van which can Retrench Energy

一种节能型冷藏汽车

retrench v. cut down , make economies

节省开支，缩减支出

retrench : to reduce or diminish, esp. so as to economize

减少，节省。如：