pare down

英 [peə(r) daʊn]

美 [per daʊn]

减少；削减

英英释义

verb

• decrease gradually or bit by bit
  Synonym:pare

双语例句

• I did want to pare down my political involvements to a minimum.
  我的确想尽量少参加些政治活动。
• He took pains to pare and polish himself down to the pattern of the rest of the world, but he never succeeded.
  他煞费苦心地要把自己修饰得能赶上潮流，可是他始终没能如愿以偿。
• We were asked to pare down our budget.
  我们被要求削减预算。
• One way to deal with overload is to pare down commitments, as Leo Babauta describes in his beautiful post, How to be less busy in a busy, busy world.
  要处理这种情绪上的负担，有一种办法就是像利欧·巴布塔在他的博客美文《如何在纷繁世界中泰然生活》中所说的，适当放低对自己的要求。
• The restraints on the family budget of a limited income With less money coming in, we had to pare down household expenses.
  有限的收入对家庭开支预算的约束收入减少了，我们不得不紧缩家庭开支。
• The answer is maybe, if you are careful to pare down your endpoint to bare bones data types and semantics.
  也许可以，如果您小心地将端点减少到基本数据类型和语义。
• Last week he launched a campaign against official excess, calling on officials to pare down feasts.
  上周他发起遏制官员铺张浪费的努力，呼吁官员们“简化接待”。
• Whatever the reason, there are several grassroots movements afoot that have average Joes trying to pare down their possessions and do more living with less stuff.
  不论是什么原因，有一些属于草根们的活动，一些普通人正在进行着，来减少自己的所有物，更少的东西带来更多的生活。
• Pare down your list of possible occupations based on what you learned from your research.
  你做的调查尽的削减清单上的职业。
• Pare down your desires.
  降低我们的欲望。