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
- 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。 - You may need to scale back on your variable expenses.
如果支出与收入不符你就需要对可变开支进行调整。 - 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。 - 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。 - That sluggish performance and concerns about China's slowdown have led traders to scale back bets on renminbi appreciation.
这种低迷的表现，加之对于中国经济放缓的担忧，已促使交易员们缩减对人民币升值的押注。 - As a result, some turn to cheating rather than scale back other parts of their life.
因此，一些人开始选择欺骗而不是缩减生活中的其他环节。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We had to scale back our relief efforts this year.
今年我们的救助力度要减少点。