slim down
英 [slɪm daʊn]
美 [slɪm daʊn]
(通过节食)减肥,变苗条; 精简(机构); 裁减(人员)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB-ERG 精简(机构);裁减(人员)
If a company or other organizationslims downoris slimmed down, it employs fewer people, in order to save money or become more efficient.- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
许多公司几乎别无选择,只能裁员。 - ...the plan to slim down the coal industry.
精减煤炭从业人员的计划
- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
- → see:slim 2
英英释义
verb
- take off weight
双语例句
- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
许多公司几乎别无选择,只能裁员。 - If you are still dieting to slim down, then you are out of touch.
如果你还在通过节食来瘦身,那你就落伍了。 - This came after an earlier pledge to lose weight made in January on BBC Radio Sussex, in which the prime minister called his efforts to slim down a great patriotic struggle.
今年1月,首相卡梅伦在BBC萨塞克斯电台节目中发誓减肥,说自己的减肥是伟大的爱国行动。 - And chewing the stuff might also help you slim down, according to new research from the University of Rhode Island.
根据美国罗德岛大学的一项最新的研究发现,嚼口香糖也能帮你瘦下来。 - Why you should skip it: it seems to make sense: the sight of those pants or the ads with fashion models wearing them might motivate you to slim down.
为什么不可取:听起来似乎很有道理:看着那些裤子,或者看到广告里时装模特们穿着那些裤子可能会激发你想减肥的欲望。 - You have to slim down your holiday plans since costs have risen so much.
既然费用上涨得这么厉害,你们必须削减假日计划安排。 - Whether you're the life of the party, a bookworm or a night owl, your personality plays a surprisingly large role in your ability to slim down.
不论你是派对狂、大书虫还是夜猫子,你的性格都会极大地影响你的减肥能力。 - So what about those naturally gluten-free foods, such as meat, fish, fruit and vegetables? Are they going to help us slim down?
那么,像猪肉、鱼肉、以及水果蔬菜这类的天然无麸质食品会不会帮助我们瘦身呢? - One obvious tuning option was to move to UNIX machines, but that was ruled out as impractical-the customer preferred instead to slim down the application.
最明显的调优方案是转移到unix机器上,但是因为不切实际而被排除掉了客户更愿意让这个应用程序减肥。 - Scientists have been scouring the world in recent decades for all manner of miracle plants that can help people slim down.
近几十年来科学家们一直在世界各地寻找各种各样的可以帮助人们减肥的神奇植物。