slim down

1. PHRASAL VERB-ERG 精简(机构);裁减(人员)
   If a company or other organization slims down or is 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
2. → see: slim 2

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. 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。
3. The market seems to like it when big banks slim down these days, and several are doing just that.
   市场似乎很乐意看到大型银行“瘦身”，最近几家银行在这方面也确实有所行动。
4. 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。
5. Can you slim down by kissing too much?
   经常接吻能减肥么？
6. So what about those naturally gluten-free foods, such as meat, fish, fruit and vegetables? Are they going to help us slim down?
   那么，像猪肉、鱼肉、以及水果蔬菜这类的天然无麸质食品会不会帮助我们瘦身呢？
7. Whether you're the life of the party, a bookworm or a night owl, your personality plays a surprisingly large role in your ability to slim down.
   不论你是派对狂、大书虫还是夜猫子，你的性格都会极大地影响你的减肥能力。
8. Those already overweight at the start of the two-year course would score double points if they managed to slim down over a period of two years.
   对于在两年课程学习前期阶段已经超重的学生，如果在接下来的两年时间里能成功瘦下来，那他们可以得到双倍的分数。
9. This came after an earlier pledge to lose weight made in January on BBC Radio Sussex, in which the prime minister called his efforts to slim down a great patriotic struggle.
   今年1月，首相卡梅伦在BBC萨塞克斯电台节目中发誓减肥，说自己的减肥是伟大的爱国行动。
10. Scientists have been scouring the world in recent decades for all manner of miracle plants that can help people slim down.
    近几十年来科学家们一直在世界各地寻找各种各样的可以帮助人们减肥的神奇植物。
11. And chewing the stuff might also help you slim down, according to new research from the University of Rhode Island.
    根据美国罗德岛大学的一项最新的研究发现，嚼口香糖也能帮你瘦下来。
12. Judy is overweight, she needs to slim down.
    朱迪身体超重，她需要去减肥。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. Weight loss-estimated to lose weight and are trying to lose weight but have a lot of the MM, but, in and to "slim down" for a protracted war games, he was unable to see what results, which is Why?
    减肥&估计正在减肥和正想减肥的MM们可是不少，可是，在和“减肥”进行了一场场旷日持久的战争后，也未能见什么成效，这是为什么呢？
17. The Home Office will keep its name, but will slim down its responsibilities to concentrate on terrorism, security and immigration.
    内政部将保留名称不变，但将削减它的指责；转而一心一意负责恐怖主义、安全和移民问题。
18. He feels like dieting to slim down.
    他很想节制饮食来减肥。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. No matter which diet you choose, though, you have to stick to it if you really want to slim down.
    如果你真希望减肥，那么不论你选择哪种节食方法，都必须坚持下去。
22. 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。
23. You have to slim down your holiday plans since costs have risen so much.
    既然费用上涨得这么厉害，你们必须削减假日计划安排。
24. If everybody is forced to carry the weight of the seriously fat, then everybody has an interest in seeing them slim down.
    如果每个人都被迫承担超级胖人的重负，那么人人都很希望看到他们苗条下来。
25. One obvious tuning option was to move to UNIX machines, but that was ruled out as impractical-the customer preferred instead to slim down the application.
    最明显的调优方案是转移到unix机器上，但是因为不切实际而被排除掉了客户更愿意让这个应用程序减肥。
26. 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。
27. We know you slim down their thighs and their noses and you lighten their skin.
    我们知道你们修长了她们的大腿和鼻子，提亮了她们的肤色。
28. 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。

verb

1. take off weight

   Synonym:    reducemelt offlose weightslimslenderizethin