pare down

英 [peə(r) daʊn]

美 [per daʊn]

减少；削减

英英释义

verb

• decrease gradually or bit by bit
  Synonym:pare

双语例句

• Pare down your desires.
  降低我们的欲望。
• I moved immediately after the election to pare down radically the size of the executive branch.
  大选后，我立即采取行动，大肆削减行政部门的人员。
• In short, you'll pare down the problem spots that are coming between you and your much-loved denim.
  总之，你和你深爱的牛仔裤之间的问题会越来越少。
• Both unemployed, the Lamp couple had to pare down their house hold expenses.
  由于俩人都失业了，兰姆夫妇不得不减少家庭开支。
• I did want to pare down my political involvements to a minimum.
  我的确想尽量少参加些政治活动。
• Last week he launched a campaign against official excess, calling on officials to pare down feasts.
  上周他发起遏制官员铺张浪费的努力，呼吁官员们“简化接待”。
• Note that there also instructions on how to pare down the Eclipse system to give you just the bits you need.
  注意，还有一些指令用来简化Eclipse系统，以便刚好满足您的需要。
• Pare down your bath countertop to the things you really like or need to have handy, then store the rest.
  削减您放到浴室里的厨房桌上的东西，如果你真的很喜欢或需要就储存在剩余的空间。
• One way to deal with overload is to pare down commitments, as Leo Babauta describes in his beautiful post, How to be less busy in a busy, busy world.
  要处理这种情绪上的负担，有一种办法就是像利欧·巴布塔在他的博客美文《如何在纷繁世界中泰然生活》中所说的，适当放低对自己的要求。
• With less money coming in, we had to pare down household expenses.
  收入减少了，我们不得不紧缩家庭开支。