downsize

英 [ˈdaʊn.saɪz]      美 [ˈdaʊn.saɪz]
  • vt. 以较小尺寸设计;缩小尺寸;裁减人数
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将“downsize”分解为“down”(向下)和“size”(大小)。记忆方法:想象公司为了节省空间或成本,正在将某些事物(如办公室)或人数(如员工)“向下缩放”或减少。这种方法通过视觉和逻辑联想帮助你记住单词的含义。

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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: Downsized; downsizing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.