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

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