英语释义

1. something cut back

2. reduction
a cutback in funding

3. to shorten by cutting prune

4. to interrupt the sequence of a plot (as of a movie) by introducing events prior to those last presented

5. cut down
cut back on sugar

6. the act of reducing the number or amount of something

片语

heavy cutting-back重回缩修剪

tea cutting back pruning茶树短截修剪

cutting tool back退刀

Cutting Back to Basic提高效能

stubremained cutting back留桩修剪

pruning修剪（prune的ing形式）

cutting back on削减，缩减；减低

cutting-back technique回切的分层构瓷法

Cutting back blossom cluster花穗短截

trunk cutting back树干截短

英汉例句

• Remember, if cutting back at all makes you feel really unhappy, then don’t cut back.

  记住，如果削减的消费让你真的不快乐，那就算了吧。

• Chipmakers began cutting back in late 2008 in response to overcapacity and the recession.

  为了应对产能过剩和经济衰退，芯片制造商2008年底开始削减产能。

• The most common answer was unemployment benefits, at 23 percent, and cutting back spending to just necessities, at 20 percent, it said.

  调查显示，最常见的回答就是领失业救济，占23%，有20%的人削减开支，只购买生活必需品。

• Her results show that reducing emissions is more complicated than just cutting back on nitrogen fertilizers and changing crop rotation cycles.

  她的研究结果表明，减少排放要比只是减少氮肥的使用和改变作物轮作周期复杂得多。

• Limit your schedule, whether that means eliminating your favorite TV show or cutting back on a few social events, and put the extra time into job hunting.

  给自己的计划设定期限，不管这意味着要放弃你最喜爱的电视节目还是削减社交活动，将节省下来的时间投入到找工作上。

• They also saved money by cutting back on personnel, which meant less personal service.

  他们还通过删减人员来节约成本，这意味着人工服务的减少。

• That, however, raised hackles about shifting the burden to poorer people just as the state was cutting back on benefits in the teeth of a recession.

  但是此法将可能会把税负转移给穷人，而且现在经济衰退州已经在削减穷人福利。

• He said he was looking to his energy auditors to find ways of cutting back energy consumption at operating bases, and also to pare down the equipment carried by each individual Marine.

  他表示，希望能源审计人员找到削减作战基地能源消耗以及削减每一位海军陆战队员所携带装备的方法。

• He would tell Americans that stopping global warming means higher energy prices, and that arresting health-care inflation means cutting back on medical procedures that people want but don「t need.

  他应该告诉美国人，停止全球变暖就意味着更高的能源价格，遏制健康医疗方面的通胀就意味着要削减人们想要但未必是必须的医疗过程。

• America」s government, for instance, needs a medium-term plan for deficit reduction, but cutting back spending viciously in the short term at a time of private-sector retrenchment would be a mistake.

  比如说，美国政府需要制定一个减债的中期计划，但是在私营部门正在紧缩的时候，政府短期内大幅削减开支将是一个错误。

• So far restaurant-goers are not cutting back too much on their restaurant visits, but they are spending less each time.

  到目前为止，餐馆常客们并未大幅减少去酒店的次数，但是他们减少了每次的消费。

• Most of them are still busy selling existing loan portfolios, if they can, and reducing the size of their loan portfolios by cutting back on new lending.

  卖得掉的话，他们多数都在忙着卖掉现有的贷款组合，并且通过削减新贷来缩小他们贷款组合的规模。

• But many are skeptical of the recent findings, published in the American Journal of Hypertension, and say it is not enough to devalue the major benefits of cutting back on sodium.

  但是许多人对这一刊登在《美国高血压癥杂志》上的最新发现表示出怀疑，他们认为这不足以贬损减少钠元素摄入的有益之处。

• He never quite completes his sentences. It takes sentences cutting back and forth - with animated hand gestures - for the big picture to unfold.

  谈话中他从不讲完整的句子，一句话在他的叙述中，被他不断的切断，再加上手势和姿态，他就像在展开一副大图片。

• Tweetwhatyouspend is invaluable for anyone who wants to start cutting back costs because it shines a light on what you「re spending the most money on and helps you figure out where you can make cuts.

  Tweetwhatyouspend对那些想要开始削减开支的人是非常宝贵的，因为它揭露你在什么上花费最多，并帮助你找出哪些地方是可以削减的。

• But that balance will only last for a few decades, at best. And that makes cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions an even more pressing priority.

  不过即使是在最好的情况下平衡也只能持续数十年。这让削减温室气体排放成为迫在眉睫的问题。

• And if the nutrition and disease theory is correct, next year」s lower contract prices may see beekeepers cutting back on supplemental feeding, and a resurgence of CCD.

  如果营养和疾病关系的理论是正确的，也许明年的低合同价格会削减养蜂人补充食物的开销，最终将导致蜂群崩溃失调癥(CCD)的逆袭。

• Saving the planet one plateful at a time does not mean cutting back on meat, according to new research: the trick may be to switch our diet to insects and other creepy-crawlies.

  每次节省一盘菜用来拯救地球并不是意味着削减肉食，根据新的调查：窍门可能是把我们的饮食调整成吃昆虫和其它瓢虫。

• They think that taking a break, or cutting back on their workload, is out of the question.

  他们还认为花点时间休息或者削减工作量是想都不用想的。

• The Westlake Chemical Corporation of Houston has lost sales to a Canadian vinyl pipe maker that is cutting back production because it can’t bid for some American jobs.

  而休斯顿的西湖化工公司也失去了一家加拿大乙烯管制造商的订购，该制造商由于不能支持美国就业而削减产量。

• Whether it's for one of the reasons above — or because you want to trim your spending on pricey coffee drinks — cutting back on caffeine can be challenging.

  无论你是出于以上的某个原因——还是你想要缩减你花在咖啡上面的开支——戒掉咖啡因的「瘾」可是件具有挑战的事儿。

相似词

bob摆动，颠簸；轻敲；快速的点头（或鞠躬）；浮子；钟摆，悬挂的饰品；齐短发型，波波头；大雪橇，连橇；（一）先令；相当多的一笔钱；诗节末尾的短行；变序鸣钟

clip（塑料或金属的）夹子；回纹针；修剪；剪报

crop产量；农作物；庄稼；平头

cut缩减的；割下的；雕过的

dock入船坞

nip夹；捏；剪断；冻伤；阻止

pare(Pare)人名；(英)佩尔；(法)帕尔

poll投票；民意测验；投票数；投票所

prune(Prune)人名；(罗)普鲁内

shave剃须，剃毛

shear切变

snip剪；便宜货

trim整齐的；身材苗条的