英语释义

1. a period of inactivity or idleness

2. the act of laying off an employee or a workforce also shutdown

3. to mark or measure off

4. to cease to employ (a worker) often temporarily

5. to place all or part of (an accepted bet) with another bookie to reduce the risk

6. to leave undisturbed

7. avoid, quit
was advised to lay off smoking and alcohol

8. to refrain from swinging at (a pitch)

9. to stop doing or taking something

10. to leave one alone
wish you'd just lay off

11. the act of ending the employment of a worker or group of workers

12. a period of time during which there is no activity

英汉例句

• Even Microsoft began laying off workers.

  甚至微软也开始裁员了。

• He can try moving government drivers to new duties, but only with their consent (though he is laying off 23 drivers on temporary contracts).

  他能够尽力给政府司机安排新职务，但是只能在他们的同意下才能进行(不过他打算终止23名司机的临时合同。)

• Amazon is investing - and hiring - aggressively for the future, at a time when most American corporations are cutting costs, laying off workers, and hoarding humongous piles of cash.

  当大多数美国公司忙着降低成本、裁掉员工、囤积现金时，亚马逊却在为未来积极地投资、雇用。

• Many have tried to save money by laying off staff, closing academic departments and reducing the number of classes offered.

  很多大学试图通过解雇员工，关闭学术部门，减少开课数量来节约资金。

• Cutting legal aid, closing courts and laying off civil servants-the sacrifices offered by the ministry last month-were not enough.

  削减法律援助，关闭法庭，解雇公务员——司法部长上个月的决定——还不够。

• In late September, Bank of America began laying off employees in its investment banking unit; just a few days later Morgan Stanley announced a hiring freeze in its i-bank group for the rest of 2010.

  今年9月底，美国银行刚裁掉一批投资银行业务部门的员工，之后数天内，摩根斯坦利也宣布2010年在其电子银行业务部门暂时停止招聘。

• It is also raising fares for weekly and monthly passes, cutting rail services by 14.2% and laying off around 300 people.

  而且还会提高周票、月票的价格，减少14.2%的铁路服务，并裁员300多人。

• That sparked a chain reaction as companies that were still building new factories as recently as a year ago shelved expansion plans and cut production, reducing pay or laying off workers.

  这引发了连锁反应：一年前还在兴建新工厂的企业，纷纷搁置扩张计划、削减产量，不是减薪就是裁员。

• Households postpone buying new homes or cars when firms are laying off workers and stock prices are falling.

  当企业裁员和股市下降时，家庭就推迟购买新的房屋和汽车。

• Businesses that serve the state government or have lots of civil servants as customers are already said to be laying off staff.

  把州政府或是公务员当做顾客的生意据说已经决意精简工作人员。

• The turmoil of the airline industry over the last 20 years or so has caused many airlines to go out of business or shrink in size thus laying off massive numbers of employees.

  过去20年航空业的混乱导致很多航空公司破产或者减小规模，大量员工失业。

• Sure, companies are laying off workers, but many are also looking for new talent, especially at the entry level.

  因为各个公司裁员的同时也在增员，特别是要注入新鲜血液。

• Special education advocates are already hearing complaints about districts that are laying off classroom aides who help modify curriculum and assist students with physical tasks.

  由于学区要辞退那些协助学生完成体能任务和协调课程的助教，特殊教育的拥护者已经收到有关方面的投诉。

• Hiring managers understand that many companies are laying off good employees purely for financial reasons.

  招聘机构认识到，有许多公司纯粹是因为财务上的原因而解雇表现出色的员工。

• Readings for new orders and new export orders point to worse to come, with factories already laying off workers, buying fewer raw materials and cutting production.

  新订单和新出口订单指数预示形势还将恶化，目前工厂已经在减员、减少购买原材料和减产。

• Half have already started cancelling infrastructure projects, cutting health-care benefits or laying off workers.

  超过一半的地区都取消了一些基础设施项目，削减了健康保障计划或者进行了裁员。

• Profits have been collapsing, resulting in firms laying off workers and pursuing few new investments.

  利润的倒塌导致企业解雇工人，追求一些新的投资。

• Q. With the country in a recession, your 401(k) losing money and companies laying off workers left and right, you know it would be a good idea to cut back on your spending while you’re at work.

  全国经济不景气，养老金帐户里的钱在流失，周围的公司都在裁员，我很清楚的认识到现在有必要在上班时继续省钱了。

• Whether this is achieved by raising taxes or cutting spending (by laying off public-sector workers) may not matter much for disposable incomes.

  无论是通过增税或（或通过精简公有企业人员）削减开销来达到此目的，都不会对税后收入有多大的影响。

• Other papers are laying off reporters and editors, dismantling foreign and statehouse bureaus or literally shrinking the size of their publications to stay afloat.

  其他的报纸削减记者和编辑，关闭国外和国内分社或者缩小版面以求生存。

• Its 1950s-era textile mills are laying off workers.

  五十年代修建的纺织厂的工人们纷纷下岗。

• The past three years have seen big pharmaceutical companies laying off tens of thousands of highly educated, trained scientists and the U.S. is not creating jobs fast enough to absorb the talent.

  过去的三年，很多大型制药公司裁减了成千上万有高学历、受过良好训练的科学家，而美国没有及时提供足够的岗位来承载这些天才们。

• Firms have been laying off workers because they were facing falling profits or losses.

  企业一直在裁员，因为它们的利润一直在下降，甚至正承受着越来越多的损失。

相似词

discharge出院，免职；释放；（液体、气体等的）排出；排出物；放电；开枪；下客；履行责任；（债务的）清偿

dismissal解雇；免职

furlough準假；暂时解雇