scale down

英 [skeɪl daʊn]

美 [skeɪl daʊn]

缩小; 缩减; 减弱

计算机化学

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 缩小;缩减;减弱
  If youscale downsomething, you make it smaller in size, amount, or extent than it used to be.
  1. One factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six...
     一家工厂不得不将员工人数从 600 名裁减至仅剩 6 名。
  2. The air rescue operation has now been scaled down...
     空中救援行动的规模现在已经有所缩小。
  3. The Romanian government yesterday unveiled a new, scaled-down security force.
     罗马尼亚政府昨天对外公布了精简编制后新组建的安全部队的情况。

英英释义

verb

• make smaller
  1. reduce an image
  Synonym:reduce
• reduce proportionally
  1. The model is scaled down

双语例句

• Linux is enjoying a well-deserved surge in popularity for mobile and embedded applications, owing to its ability to scale down to the small footprint needed to run efficiently in compact devices.
  在移动和嵌入式应用程序方面，Linux受到当之无愧的欢迎，这是因为它能够根据小型设备有效运行所需的资源开销按比例进行缩减。
• I have to scale down expectations and other preferable conditions and terms. I have to lower my expectations.
  我不得不降低期望，不在待遇和福利上有太多要求。
• The President'proposal to scale down the government'social.'s's welfare spending has caused a great deal of controversy.
  总统关于消减政府社会福利支出的提议已经在公众中引起了很大的争议。争议。
• Russia needs to scale down its geopolitical ambition to its real weight – that of an emerging economy with only 3 per cent of the world's gross domestic product and a quarter of America's living standard.
  俄罗斯需要减少其地缘政治野心，使其符合自身的实际份量&国内生产总值（GDP）仅占全球3%、生活水平只有美国的四分之一的新兴经济体。
• Inside a Shenyang factory that once churned out tractors, workers scale down, pouring molten iron into molds to make cast-iron fences and gates.
  在沈阳一间过往生产牵引机的工厂内，工人把熔铁倒进模型，制作铸铁栏杆与大门。
• Our need is not to scale down debt, but to raise huge amounts of new capital.
  我们所需要的不是减少债务，而是筹措庞大数额的新资金。
• After receiving bad news in the year-end financial report, we were forced to scale down next year's budget.
  在得知年终财务报告的坏消息后，我们被迫缩减下一年的预算。
• The DB2 pureScale feature addresses capacity and availability issues by providing an easier way to scale up or to scale down while making sure that the entire database is always available.
  通过提供一个更简单的方法来向上和向下缩放，同时确保整个数据库随时可用，DB2pureScale特性解决了容量和可用性问题。
• The GAC predicted China's trade surplus might continue to scale down and keep a trade balance in the rest of the year.
  GAC预计中国的贸易顺差可能会继续减小，在今年剩下的时间里保持平衡。
• The air rescue operation has now been scaled down
  空中救援行动的规模现在已经有所缩小。