scale back

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缩小; 缩减; 减弱

牛津词典

  1. 以上各词均含减少、缩小之义，尤指削减经费、缩减生意。
    These words all mean to reduce the amount or size of sth, especially of an amount of money or a business.
    1. 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费、开支、收入或生意规模）：
      to reduce sth, especially an amount of money that is demanded, spent, earned, etc. or the size of a business
      1. The President has promised to cut taxes significantly.
        总统承诺大幅度减税。
      2. Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want.
        买主会竭力讨价还价以压低他们想买的房子的价格。
      3. His salary has been cut by ten per cent.
        他的薪金减少了百分之十。
      4. Could you cut your essay from 5 000 to 3 000 words?
        请把你的文章从5 000字删减至3 000字好吗？
    2. （常用于报章）指大幅度削减、大大降低：
      [often passive] ( rather informal ) (often used in newspapers) to reduce sth by a large amount
      1. The workforce has been slashed by half.
        职工人数裁减了一半。
    3. 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费或生意）：
      to reduce sth, especially an amount of money or business
      1. We had to cut back production.
        我们只得减产。
    4. 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费或生意）：
      ( especially NAmE or business ) to reduce sth, especially an amount of money or business
      1. The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
        国际货币基金组织已经调低对未来十年的增长预测。
    5. 指对企业或制度进行合理化改革，使合理化、使有经济效益
      ( BrE , business ) to make changes to a business or system, in order to make it more efficient, especially by spending less money
      1. 指公司或机构精简人员以降低成本。
        ( business ) to make a company or organization smaller by reducing the number of jobs in it, in order to reduce costs
        1. 指减少（数量）、缩小（规模或范围）：
          to reduce the number, size or extent of sth
          1. We are scaling down our training programmes next year.
            我们将在明年缩小培训计划。
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        柯林斯词典

        1. PHRASAL VERB 同 scale down
          To scale back means the same as to scale down .
          1. Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
            尽管目前在价格上占据优势，英国生产商还是不得不减少产量。
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        双语例句

        1. Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
          尽管目前在价格上占据优势，英国生产商还是不得不减少产量。
        2. For 2012, PIA plans to scale back his equities trading and return to commodities.
          2012年，皮亚计划缩减股票交易，回归大宗商品。
        3. Emily Rybinski, director of marketing for the Charleston Symphony, says she and her husband, who live in Johns Island, S.C., will scale back on spending as a result of the pay cut.
          查尔斯顿交响乐团的市场总监艾米利•罗宾斯基（EmilyRybinski）说，由于薪水减少，她和住在南卡罗来纳州约翰岛的丈夫将削减家庭开支。
        4. Compute as a Service can be used to access virtualized servers to quickly expand compute capacity when needed and scale back when requirements change.
          计算即服务（ComputeasaService）可以用于访问虚拟服务器，在需要的时候迅速扩展计算容量，并在需求变化时相应地缩小。
        5. Once the traffic died down, the application would scale back& all without any manual intervention.
          一旦流量降低，应用程序将收缩回去&无需任何人工干预。
        6. As a result, some turn to cheating rather than scale back other parts of their life.
          因此，一些人开始选择欺骗而不是缩减生活中的其他环节。
        7. A sustained recovery would also help scale back the losses experienced by the Msref fund.
          持续的经济复苏，也将有助于缩减摩根士丹利房地产基金的亏损规模。
        8. When the economy slows, companies run into difficulties, businesses scale back their workforce, and layoffs increase.
          在经济低迷时期，公司遭遇到难关，企业缩减员工，加快了裁员。
        9. The IMF and independent forecasters have been forced to scale back expectations of economic growth, revising their annual forecasts down in every region since 2010.
          IMF和独立预测机构被迫下调经济增长预期，向下修正了所有地区2010年以来的年度增长预测数字。
        10. Carmakers in Japan and America have had to scale back production.
          日本和美国的汽车制造商已经不得不缩减生产量了。
        11. That sluggish performance and concerns about China's slowdown have led traders to scale back bets on renminbi appreciation.
          这种低迷的表现，加之对于中国经济放缓的担忧，已促使交易员们缩减对人民币升值的押注。
        12. Israel fears the Arab state won't scale back off its nuclear ambitions unless consequences are feared.
          以色列担心这个阿拉伯国家如果不收敛其核野心就将后患无穷。
        13. His victims included the British government, which was forced to scale back its support for the Rover car group, and BP, which was among a group of companies fined for price-fixing in the chemicals market.
          他的受害者包括英国政府和英国石油，前者被迫撤回对罗孚汽车（rover）的支持，后者则成为因化学品市场价格操纵问题而被罚款的众多公司之一。
        14. HSBC is to scale back its Asian operations with the potential sale or closure of seven retail businesses in ­ countries from Pakistan to New Zealand.
          汇丰（HSBC）即将缩减其亚洲业务规模，从巴基斯坦到新西兰等七个国家的零售业务可能被出售或者关闭。
        15. Several car factories have been forced to close or scale back activity.
          数家汽车厂已被迫停产或减产。
        16. The Japanese have had some good reason to scale back spending.
          日本也有一些很好的理由来减少开支。
        17. It will also reduce executive pay, scale back its investment plans and suspend its second-half dividend.
          日产还将消减公司高官的薪酬，缩小投资计划规模，并暂停今年下半年的派息。
        18. Western powers will hope a new round of economic sanctions might force Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions.
          西方大国会希望，新一轮的经济制裁或许可以迫使伊朗收敛核野心。
        19. More than half of the wealthiest people in Britain are planning to leave or scale back their UK investments in response to the tax crackdown on "non-domiciled" foreigners, according to a survey.
          调查显示，在英国最富裕人群中，有一半以上的人正打算搬离英国，或减少他们在英国的投资，以回应针对非定居外国人的税务打击。
        20. If something looks to be costing more than you budgeted for that project, you need to scale back or adjust another project.
          如果你看起来是耗资超过预算，工程你需要调整或者缩减另一个项目。
        21. You may need to scale back on your variable expenses.
          如果支出与收入不符你就需要对可变开支进行调整。
        22. If so, how much capacity does our current staff have to take on new work? Do we need to add positions, or scale back our goals?
          如果有的话，那么我们现有的工作人员能够担负多少新工作？我们是否需要增加职位或者减少我们目标的范围？
        23. Not all of the licences have been acted upon, and the economic crisis prompted some operators to scale back, put on hold, or even abandon their network development plans.
          不是所有执照行动了，并且经济危机提示有些操作员缩小，留在，甚至放弃他们的网络发展计划。
        24. We had to scale back our relief efforts this year.
          今年我们的救助力度要减少点。
        25. The central government is unable radically to scale back without seriously undermining its authority among the lower ranks.
          中央政府无法大幅降低工程规模，同时又不会严重削弱自己在下级政府中的权威。
        26. The cold weather has caused scores of factories and power plants to scale back production because of shortages of supplies of coal and other raw materials, although the likely impact on Chinese overall output is expected to be minimal.
          由于煤炭和其它原材料供应紧张，寒冷的天气已经导致数十家工厂和电厂减产，不过，预计这对中国总体产出的影响可能是微乎其微。
        27. By analyzing data, it can give consumers advice on how to cut energy use and help utilities scale back energy demand during peak times.
          通过分析数据，可以让消费者就如何削减能源的使用和帮助公用事业缩减在高峰时段的能源需求的建议。
        28. That's how we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine reinforcing our current system of more treatment rather than better care.
          只有这样，我们才能避免那些过度的，用于防御诉讼的治疗和用药，让我们的医疗系统真正实现更好的医疗服务，而不是更多的诊疗。
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