英语释义

1. to reduce in size especially to design or produce in smaller size

2. to fire (employees) for the purpose of downsizing a business

3. to undergo a reduction in size

4. to make (something) smaller

5. to make a company smaller and more efficient by reducing the number of workers

片语

downsize of institutions精简机构

downsize e精减

downsize the institutions精简机构

downsize turbo小排量涡轮增压

downsize for efficiency减员增效

downsize v缩小的

downsize staffsimprove efficiency减员增效

downsize to improve efficiency减员增效

Human resource downsize绩效

英汉例句

• whether you’re struggling to explain your lack of a couch, your limited number of shoes, or your desire to downsize to a tiny home, you’re sure to find a relevant blog post you can forward along.

  无论你正在挣扎着想解释你没有长沙发、你的鞋子只有有限的几双、或你的想把家的面积缩小到微小的愿望，你肯定能在相关的博客中找到你要的东西。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• it might be your house, your car, your clothes – whatever it is, downsize where you can.

  它可以是你的房子，你的车，你的衣服-无论是什么，缩减你能缩减的地方。

• if banks have to plan for their own demise by making 「living wills」, they may downsize voluntarily.

  如果必须做出「生前预嘱」为倒闭所準备的话，他们将会自行缩减规模。

• we adopted a strategy which was to buy other companies, get rid of the redundant parts, downsize and try to become very efficient than to have a critical mass.

  我们采取了一个策略，就是收购其他公司，去掉冗余的部门，缩小公司规模，提高效率,而不要做乌合之众。

• large home – do you need a home as large as the one you are in? can you downsize and move to an area that has considerably lower taxes?

  宽敞的房子——你的房子是否需要像现在住的这样大？你是否可以住小一点的并且搬到税收更低的地区去？

• things are different now. in control of both houses of congress, the gop is seeking ways to downsize the federal bureaucracy by outsourcing in the private sector.

  但如今可不一样了，在控制了参众两院后，共和党正在设法通过从私有企业中寻找经营者来削减联邦政府的机构。

• bskyb, the parent company, is now second only to the bbc - which ministers seem determined to downsize - in the british tv industry.

  它所属的总公司—英国天空广播公司（英国部长们似乎已经下定决心缩小其规模），在英国电视业中仅次于英国广播公司。

• re-enter mr krauthammer, fulminating this time against mr obama’s sensible decision to downsize the plan he inherited from mr bush for america to return to the moon by 2020, and thence to mars.

  这次，克劳萨默大声斥责奥巴马有意削减了布什政府要在2020年重返月球然后是火星的计划。

• 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」。

• their main objective was to help kiev downsize a missile-production infrastructure that had been used to churn out the bulk of the soviet union「s long-range weapons.

  他们的主要目标是帮助基辅裁减已用于生产大部分苏联远程武器的导弹生产基础设施。

• 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？

• 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。

• president-elect lee myung-bak, due to be sworn in monday, initially drew criticism by announcing he would downsize the ministry into a department of the south korean foreign ministry.

  定于星期一宣示就职的当选总统李明博曾宣布他将把统一部精简成从属于外交通商部的一个部门，他的想法招来了批评。

• thanks to the presence of five hybrids in its lineup, it doesn't face the same pressure as its competitors to downsize its models to meet fuel economy standards.

  它的产品线中已经有五款混合动力车型，所以它不必像它的竞争对手一样，为了满足燃油经济性标準而急着要给车型瘦身减排。

相似词

abate减轻；失效

de-escalate逐步降级

decrease减少，减小；减少量；减少过程

dent凹痕；削弱；减少

deplete耗尽，用尽；使衰竭，使空虚

diminish减少，缩小；变小

downscalead 面向低收入消费者地

drop滴；落下；空投；微量；滴剂

dwindle使缩小，使减少

ease减轻，缓解；小心缓缓地移动；使容易；放松；（使）贬值；（股票价格、利率等）下降，下跌

knock down击倒；拆卸

lessen减少；减轻；变小

lower(Lower) （美、英）洛厄（人名）

reduce减少；缩小；归纳为

相反词

aggrandize增加；夸大；强化

amplify详述

augment增加；增大

boost促进；增加；支援

enlarge扩大；使增大；扩展

escalate逐步增强；逐步升高；使……加剧，加剧；使逐步上升；升级，（使）恶化；（使）升高，（使）增加；迅速增加，迅速增长；（使）增强，（使）变得严重

expand发展；张开，展开

increase增加；增大；提高；增强

raise(Raise) （意、法、英、美）雷兹（人名）