ratchet down

1. PHRASAL VERB-ERG （使）有一定减少;（使）有一定降低
   If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
   1. We're trying to ratchet down the administrative costs...
      我们正在想法控制管理成本。

1. We're trying to ratchet down the administrative costs
   我们正在想法控制管理成本。
2. Pay experts cautioned that at least some companies could decide to ratchet down pay levels as financial results for the rest of2009 become clearer.
   薪酬专家提醒说，随着2009年剩余时间的业绩越来越清晰，至少有些企业可能会决定降低薪酬水平。
3. In the short term, both China and the US need to ratchet down tensions.
   从短期来看，中美都需要做出缓和紧张局势的动作。
4. An investment treaty would help ratchet down such tensions by improving market access and ensuring greater predictability.
   投资协定将改善市场准入，提高可预测程度，从而有助于缓解此类紧张局面。
5. Now, the aim must be to ratchet down the tension.
   如今，首要目标是缓和紧张气氛。
6. Credit lines are being withdrawn as banks try to ratchet down the risks they face.
   随着银行试图降低自己面临的风险，它们正在取消一些信贷安排。
7. After several days of heated rhetoric, both the US and China have attempted to ratchet down the tensions.
   经过数天言辞激烈的争辩后，美国和中国都试图缓和紧张局势。
8. A ratchet wheel with a handle is sheathed on the core bar, and a screw can be easily screwed down or unscrewed by both hands.
   在芯杆上套上一个带有扳把的棘轮，双手并用，就可以较轻松地拧紧或卸下螺丝。
9. The sky won't fall, the books will survive, but the culture will ratchet down another notch, and the best readers will never know what they're missing.
   天不会塌下来，书照样会留存后世，但是文化会下一个台阶，而最好的读者将永远无法知道他们错过了什么。
10. No ratchet clauses – rent can go down!
    无棘轮条款–租金可以下调！
11. Europeans cannot expect to be taken seriously if they ratchet down further their feeble defence budgets.
    如果欧洲人继续压缩已少得可怜的国防预算的话，他们就不可能指望自己受到严肃对待。
12. Instead, they claim that leaders seen as moderately assertive may be better able to ratchet up their responses when called for and to tone down their behavior when necessary.
    相反，而是告诉领导者，在环境要求表现低调行为时，适当的自信可以更好的促进自己的反应。
13. As wholesale gas falls in price, profit margins expand, and station owners are in no rush to ratchet down the price at the pump.
    随着石油批发价下跌，边际利润便有所增长，并且加油站老板并不急着去逐步减少石油的零售价。

verb

1. move by degrees in one direction only
   1. a ratcheting lopping tool

   Synonym:    ratchetrachet up