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
- His victims included the British government, which was forced to scale back its support for the Rover car group, and BP, which was among a group of companies fined for price-fixing in the chemicals market.
他的受害者包括英国政府和英国石油，前者被迫撤回对罗孚汽车（rover）的支持，后者则成为因化学品市场价格操纵问题而被罚款的众多公司之一。 - 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。 - 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。 - For 2012, PIA plans to scale back his equities trading and return to commodities.
2012年，皮亚计划缩减股票交易，回归大宗商品。 - 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。 - More than half of the wealthiest people in Britain are planning to leave or scale back their UK investments in response to the tax crackdown on "non-domiciled" foreigners, according to a survey.
调查显示，在英国最富裕人群中，有一半以上的人正打算搬离英国，或减少他们在英国的投资，以回应针对非定居外国人的税务打击。 - If something looks to be costing more than you budgeted for that project, you need to scale back or adjust another project.
如果你看起来是耗资超过预算，工程你需要调整或者缩减另一个项目。 - The cold weather has caused scores of factories and power plants to scale back production because of shortages of supplies of coal and other raw materials, although the likely impact on Chinese overall output is expected to be minimal.
由于煤炭和其它原材料供应紧张，寒冷的天气已经导致数十家工厂和电厂减产，不过，预计这对中国总体产出的影响可能是微乎其微。 - If so, how much capacity does our current staff have to take on new work? Do we need to add positions, or scale back our goals?
如果有的话，那么我们现有的工作人员能够担负多少新工作？我们是否需要增加职位或者减少我们目标的范围？ - 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。