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

• 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。
• Whatever the reason, there are several grassroots movements afoot that have average Joes trying to pare down their possessions and do more living with less stuff.
  不论是什么原因，有一些属于草根们的活动，一些普通人正在进行着，来减少自己的所有物，更少的东西带来更多的生活。
• 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”。
• The answer is maybe, if you are careful to pare down your endpoint to bare bones data types and semantics.
  也许可以，如果您小心地将端点减少到基本数据类型和语义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is using ActionScript's E4X syntax to pare down the data set to the
  这里使用的是ActionScript的E4X语法来减少
• Pare down your list of possible occupations based on what you learned from your research.
  你做的调查尽的削减清单上的职业。