downsize
英 [ˈdaʊn.saɪz]
美 [ˈdaʊn.saɪz]
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.