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.
  1. Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
     许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。
  2. ...the plan to slim down the coal industry.
     精减煤炭从业人员的计划
• → see:slim 2

英英释义

verb

• take off weight
  Synonym:reducemelt offlose weightslimslenderizethin

双语例句

• 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。
• Dresdner's investment bank will not be the only one to slim down riskier activities such as proprietary trading.
  德瑞斯顿银行的投行将削减像自由资金交易这样更具风险的业务，它将不会是唯一的一家。
• More than a third of women deliberately buy clothes which are too small for them because they are determined to slim down enough to fit into them one day, it found.
  调查发现，超过三分之一的女性特地购买很小的衣服，因为她们下定决心减肥到足够的苗条直至能穿下去为止。
• While HSBC may be on track to slim down, it now has to handle the tricky situation of maintaining a productive workforce when plenty of its people are facing the chopping block.
  汇丰的瘦身大计也许已经走上正轨，但是由于大量员工面临着下岗的压力，如何稳定军心就成为它必须处理的一个棘手问题。
• In a country famous for its pastries the new fat tax is being introduced in a beat to slim down Denmark's population and cut heart desease.
  丹麦以面点闻名，新开征的脂肪税，意在让国民变得苗条，减少心脏病发病几率。
• They are now under pressure to slim down their balance-sheets quickly, partly to shore up capital and partly because of funding strains.
  但现在它们承受了迅速压缩其资产负债表的压力，这部分出于加强资本的需要，部分出于资金紧缺。
• Rivals including Credit Suisse and Barclays have since scaled back investors 'expectations about future profitability as they are forced to slim down or quit riskier businesses and hold a much bigger buffer against potential losses.
  由于被迫删减甚至放弃风险较大的业务，并维持更多的资本金以缓冲潜在亏损，瑞士信贷（CreditSuisse）与巴克莱（Barclays）等竞争对手自那以来已纷纷缩减了投资者对未来盈利能力的预期。
• We will not see them until September, when they return filled with a post-holiday determination to slim down and tone up, before disappearing again a fortnight later.
  然后我们一直见不到他们，直到9月份，当他们重返健身俱乐部时，满怀着假日结束后的决心，想要瘦身，想要健壮，然后在两周之内再一次消失得无影无踪。
• She tells me that I'll feel better about myself if I slim down.
  她告诉我说，如果我减肥了，就会感觉舒服得多。
• 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。