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.- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。 - ...the plan to slim down the coal industry.
精减煤炭从业人员的计划
- Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
- → see:slim 2
英英释义
verb
- take off weight
双语例句
- He feels like dieting to slim down.
他很想节制饮食来减肥。 - 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。 - Judy is overweight, she needs to slim down.
朱迪身体超重，她需要去减肥。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。