downsized

英 [ˈdaʊnsaɪzd] 美 [ˈdaʊnsaɪzd]

v.  (公司、企业等)裁员,精减
downsize的过去分词和过去式

COCA.29359



柯林斯词典

  1. VERB 使精简;使缩小;使小型化
    To downsize something such as a business or industry means to make it smaller.
    1. American manufacturing organizations have been downsizing their factories.
      美国制造商们一直在缩小他们工厂的规模。
    2. ...today's downsized economy.
      当今规模变小的经济
    3. ...a consultant who's helped dozens of companies downsize.
      已协助数十家公司缩小规模的顾问

双语例句

  1. First introduced in1970 as a full-size car, the Monte Carlo had been downsized to a mid-size by the time the last rear drive model appeared in1988.
    这款轿车于1970年作为一款全尺寸轿车被引入市场。但等到它的最后一款后驱车型于1988年亮相的时候,它已经瘦身成了一款中型车。
  2. Most importantly for an Avon workforce that has been demoralized and downsized, McCoy seems to have the right leadership style.
    目前雅芳的员工队伍士气低落、规模下降,对它来说最为重要的是,麦柯伊似乎拥有合适的领导风格。
  3. Even massive Wal-Mart stores ( WMT) have downsized.
    就连庞大的沃尔玛(Wal-Mart)商店都瘦身了。
  4. Blogs have flourished, and once giant news organizations have quickly downsized as competition intensifies for web audiences.
    博客遍地开花,而由于抢夺网络受众的竞争日益激烈,曾经的新闻巨头只好迅速裁减人员。
  5. They have moved in with friends, downsized apartments, and asked their parents for assistance.
    他们和朋友一起住,换了小公寓,甚至向他们的父母寻求帮助。
  6. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other.
    但是在搬进小房子后,将大家隔离开来的空间少得多了,这样一来,家庭成员就可以有更多的时间呆在一起。
  7. This means the code is downsized to reduce the resources needed to consume, discover, or expose Dynamic Web services.
    这意味着会对代码进行简化,以减少使用、发现或公开动态Web服务所需的资源。
  8. If you were downsized in a bad economy, this new moon will offer hope that you can find work and it would be on a par with the work you used to do.
    如果你在不良的经济状态下被裁员了,这轮新月可是会提供你重新开工的希望哦,而且新工作与原先的工作内容相彷。
  9. I spent a couple of decades being the leading lady; now I have a character role. It hurts to be downsized.
    我花了几十年的时间才成为女主角,现在一下子又有个特定角色了,被压低的感觉很伤人。
  10. Mr Dudley warned that if institutions did not act, financial stability concerns would dictate that your firms need to be dramatically downsized and simplified so they can be managed effectively.
    杜德利曾警告说,如果各金融机构不采取措施,出于对金融稳定性的担忧,监管机构会要求你们的公司必须大幅缩减规模并精简机构,从而确保它们能得到有效管理。
  11. More people are getting downsized, terminated or just plain fired all the time.
    很多人都被裁掉了,终止了合同关系或者就是简单地被开除了。
  12. The 12-room tomb is constructed of mud bricks and appears to be a downsized replica of Scorpion's palace.
    这座12室墓穴由泥制砖头建成,看上去像是蝎子王宫殿的微缩复制品。
  13. A new doctrine is taking hold: if banks are considered too big to fail, then they are too big and should, hence, be downsized.
    一种新理论逐渐占据了上风:如果银行被认为太大而不能倒闭,那么它们就是太大了,因此应当瘦身。
  14. To manymanagers in downsized companies, redundancyor overlap is seenas wasteful.
    对很多缩编的公司的经理们来说,过剩或重叠被视为一种糟蹋。
  15. The present EU leadership should follow the same path by promoting a single European foreign policy, especially at a time when national ones are being rapidly downsized.
    欧盟现在的领导层应该追随他们的步伐,提倡单一的欧洲外交政策,尤其是在国家层面的外交政策正在迅速减少之际。
  16. Coffee's recent history reflects that of globalisation: the role of governments has been reduced and institutions downsized in the name of efficiency.
    咖啡近年来的历史反映了全球化的历史:政府的作用被减弱了,而制度以效率的名义被缩减。
  17. He downsized Neocha staff, moved its office to a smaller space, and switched to a less expensive Web-hosting service.
    他减少了“新茶”的工作人员,办公室也搬到了一个较小的地方,还换了一个较便宜的网站寄存服务商。
  18. This may happen if you quit one job or another, but it could also happen if you are downsized and find yourself without a job.
    这可能会是你主动放弃这个或那个工作,也可能是你被裁员而发现自己没了工作。
  19. Most recently, mobile phones have become significantly downsized as they have been improved.
    最近,由于移动电话的改进,其体积大为缩小。
  20. Jeffrey, at the age of twenty-six, had just been downsized for the second time in six months.
    杰弗里,26岁,在六个月里,第二次减小了型号(译注:减肥)。
  21. In these downsized times, most of the paid, permanent staff are fully occupied.
    在当前企业瘦身的日子里,大多数有报酬的长期员工都忙得不可开交。
  22. Has he been downsized, too?
    他也被裁了?
  23. We sold the big house in the suburbs soon after and downsized to a cottage in the city, I got rid of a lot of things, but I brought the table with me.
    我们卖在郊区的大房子,并精简到后不久,在城市平房,我得到了很多东西赶走,但我带我的表。
  24. Smoothing choke coil can be downsized.
    平滑扼流圈线圈可以缩小。
  25. The owner had been downsized and needed to sell that day because he and his family were moving to California where another job waited.
    房主希望在几天内折价出售,因为他和他的全家要迁移到加利福尼亚。那里有一份新的工作在等着他。
  26. And the GM balance sheet would be downsized as over$ 40 billion in unsecured debt would be converted into equity.
    随着超过400亿美元的无担保债券将转换为股票,通用汽车的资产还将缩水。
  27. Occasionally, a downsized operation can be more profitable and valuable.
    偶尔,缩小业务规模可能会更赚钱,也更有价值。