downsize 是什么意思
vt. 以较小尺寸设计；缩小尺寸；裁减人数
英语词源
downsize (v.)1986 in reference to companies shedding jobs; earlier (1975) in reference to U.S. automakers building smaller cars and trucks (supposedly a coinage at General Motors), from down (adv.) + size (v.). Related: Down
downsize 权威例句
- 1. Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.
- 销售业绩减少很多,所以他们必须缩小规模.
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- 2. He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions.
- 他将缩小三家公司的执行董事会.
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- 3. The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers.
- 公司决定缩小规模,并更加充分地用好余下的工人.
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- 4. And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit.
- 并且随着企业的分散化和小规模化, 信息系统也产生同样的变化.
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- 5. Free - market reforms have moved governments everywhere to downsize, deregulate, and privatize.
- 自由市场改革正促使各地政府缩小规模, 解除管制, 搞私有化.
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downsize 造句
- 1. There is evidence that firms believe they are behaving rationally whenever they downsize; yet recent research has shown that the actual economic effects of downsizing are often negative for firms.
- 有证据表明，企业认为，无论何时裁员，他们的行为都是理性的；然而最近的研究表明，裁员对企业的实际经济影响往往是负面的。
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- 2. In order to set up and improve this system, we must downsize staffs and improve efficiency.
- 为了建立和完善这一新体系，我们必须要减员增效。
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- 3. They have to downsize, says Mr Abed .
- 他们必须厉行精简，阿比德先生说。
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- 4. "But" How can companies downsize ethically?
- 裁员是否道德“而是”公司怎样做使得裁员更为人道？
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- 5. Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.
- 销售业绩减少很多，所以他们必须缩小规模。
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- 6. Rent an extra bedroom to a friend, or downsize your home.
- 可以把多余的卧室租给朋友，或者住个小房子。
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- 7. He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions.
- 他将缩小三家公司的执行董事会。
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- 8. But really, we're only reacting to you trying to downsize us.
- 但是事实上，我们只是对你们对我们的小觑做出反应。
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- 9. We tend to "downsize" each time we move, and I always dread the process.
- 每次我们搬家都要减少一部分家用，而我就做怕这个。
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- 10. A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right.
- 许多公司选择缩小规模，这对于它们或许是正确的。
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- 11. The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers.
- 公司决定缩小规模，并更加充分地用好余下的工人。
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- 12. Seems the only way out is to cut some programs and downsize our organization.
- 看来唯一的出路是减少一些慈善项目和精简我们的机构。
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- 13. It is with great regret that our department has to downsize to three people.
- 非常遗憾的是，我们的部门要减员至三人。
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- 14. And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit.
- 并且随着企业的分散化和小规模化，信息系统也产生同样的变化。
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- 15. As firms downsize, many employees are being forced to take on lots of extra work.
- 由于公司裁员，很多雇员都被迫做很多额外的工作。
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- 16. It is said that the company is going to downsize staff, everyone is feeling anxious.
- 据说公司要裁员了，大家全都人心惶惶。
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- 17. It might be your house, your car, your clothes - whatever it is, downsize where you can.
- 它可以是你的房子，你的车，你的衣服-无论是什么，缩减你能缩减的地方。
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- 18. Downsize potatoes, pasta, rice and fatty and sugary foods, and super size fruit and vegetables.
- 减少土豆、意大利面、米跟多糖多脂的食物分量，多吃水果跟蔬菜。
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- 19. If Banks have to plan for their own demise by making "living wills", they may downsize voluntarily.
- 如果银行一定要为他们的倒闭做出计划，他们可能就会主动缩小规模。
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- 20. We were forced to downsize, but then saw the changing situation as an opportunity, rather than a threat.
- 我们公司被迫“瘦身”，但后来我们把当时的市场转变视为一个机会，而不把它视为威胁。
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- 21. Tom sized up the situation, and decided to downsize his business, which turned out to be a wise decision.
- 汤姆审时度势，决定缩小企业规模，后来证明这是明智之举。
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- 22. The current owners bought the house for 35,000 dollars in 1973 and are looking to downsize to a condominium.
- 这套房子的现房主于1973年花了3.5万美元买下这处住宅，如今房主希望将其缩小为一套公寓。
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- 23. My last boss said the sharp drop in market demand reduced orders, they had to cut the cost through downsize.
- 我前老板说市场需求锐减造成订单减少，他们不得不通过裁员缩减成本。
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- 24. The current owners bought the house for 35, 000 dollars in 1973 and are looking to downsize to a condominium.
- 这套房子的现房主于1973年花了3.5万美元买下这处住宅，如今房主希望将其缩小为一套公寓。
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- 25. When we decided to downsize our home we took the opportunity to get rid of some “treasures” we no longer needed.
- 当我们决定搬进小点的房子时，就需要扔掉一些用不上的“宝贝”。
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- 26. If, as most experts agree, downsizing is here to stay, perhaps the real question is not, "is it ethical to downsize?"
- 正如大多数专家所认同，如果裁员行动继续下去，或许真正的问题不在？
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- 27. If, as most experts agree, downsizing is here to stay, perhaps the real question is not, "is it ethical to downsize?"
- 正如大多数专家所认同，如果裁员行动继续下去，或许真正的问题不在？
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