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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。