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

• The restraints on the family budget of a limited income With less money coming in, we had to pare down household expenses.
  有限的收入对家庭开支预算的约束收入减少了，我们不得不紧缩家庭开支。
• 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。
• Pare down your desires.
  降低我们的欲望。
• Your r é sum é is a marketing document, not a comprehensive listing of everything about you; include the things that strengthen your candidacy and pare down the rest.
  你的简历是用来推销自己的，不要像写清单一样把每件事都列下来，请写能加强竞争力和能把别人比下去的事情吧。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We have pare down our expenses to a bare minimum.
  我们已最大限度地削减了开支。
• 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”。
• I did want to pare down my political involvements to a minimum.
  我的确想尽量少参加些政治活动。