scale back
英 [skeɪl bæk]
美 [skeɪl bæk]
缩小; 缩减; 减弱
牛津词典
- 以上各词均含减少、缩小之义，尤指削减经费、缩减生意。
These words all mean to reduce the amount or size of sth, especially of an amount of money or a business. - 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费、开支、收入或生意规模）：
to reduce sth, especially an amount of money that is demanded, spent, earned, etc. or the size of a business- The President has promised to cut taxes significantly.
总统承诺大幅度减税。 - Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want.
买主会竭力讨价还价以压低他们想买的房子的价格。 - His salary has been cut by ten per cent.
他的薪金减少了百分之十。 - Could you cut your essay from 5 000 to 3 000 words?
请把你的文章从5 000字删减至3 000字好吗？
- The President has promised to cut taxes significantly.
- （常用于报章）指大幅度削减、大大降低：
[often passive] ( rather informal ) (often used in newspapers) to reduce sth by a large amount- The workforce has been slashed by half.
职工人数裁减了一半。
- The workforce has been slashed by half.
- 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费或生意）：
to reduce sth, especially an amount of money or business- We had to cut back production.
我们只得减产。
- We had to cut back production.
- 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费或生意）：
( especially NAmE or business ) to reduce sth, especially an amount of money or business- The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
国际货币基金组织已经调低对未来十年的增长预测。
- The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
- 指对企业或制度进行合理化改革，使合理化、使有经济效益
( BrE , business ) to make changes to a business or system, in order to make it more efficient, especially by spending less money - 指公司或机构精简人员以降低成本。
( business ) to make a company or organization smaller by reducing the number of jobs in it, in order to reduce costs - 指减少（数量）、缩小（规模或范围）：
to reduce the number, size or extent of sth- We are scaling down our training programmes next year.
我们将在明年缩小培训计划。
- We are scaling down our training programmes next year.
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 同 scale down
Toscale backmeans the same as toscale down.- Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
尽管目前在价格上占据优势，英国生产商还是不得不减少产量。
- Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
双语例句
- Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
尽管目前在价格上占据优势，英国生产商还是不得不减少产量。 - Carmakers in Japan and America have had to scale back production.
日本和美国的汽车制造商已经不得不缩减生产量了。 - Western powers will hope a new round of economic sanctions might force Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions.
西方大国会希望，新一轮的经济制裁或许可以迫使伊朗收敛核野心。 - The IMF and independent forecasters have been forced to scale back expectations of economic growth, revising their annual forecasts down in every region since 2010.
IMF和独立预测机构被迫下调经济增长预期，向下修正了所有地区2010年以来的年度增长预测数字。 - Once the traffic died down, the application would scale back& all without any manual intervention.
一旦流量降低，应用程序将收缩回去&无需任何人工干预。 - Not all of the licences have been acted upon, and the economic crisis prompted some operators to scale back, put on hold, or even abandon their network development plans.
不是所有执照行动了，并且经济危机提示有些操作员缩小，留在，甚至放弃他们的网络发展计划。 - When the economy slows, companies run into difficulties, businesses scale back their workforce, and layoffs increase.
在经济低迷时期，公司遭遇到难关，企业缩减员工，加快了裁员。 - HSBC is to scale back its Asian operations with the potential sale or closure of seven retail businesses in countries from Pakistan to New Zealand.
汇丰（HSBC）即将缩减其亚洲业务规模，从巴基斯坦到新西兰等七个国家的零售业务可能被出售或者关闭。 - That's how we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine reinforcing our current system of more treatment rather than better care.
只有这样，我们才能避免那些过度的，用于防御诉讼的治疗和用药，让我们的医疗系统真正实现更好的医疗服务，而不是更多的诊疗。 - By analyzing data, it can give consumers advice on how to cut energy use and help utilities scale back energy demand during peak times.
通过分析数据，可以让消费者就如何削减能源的使用和帮助公用事业缩减在高峰时段的能源需求的建议。