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

• 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。
• We have pare down our expenses to a bare minimum.
  我们已最大限度地削减了开支。
• Pare down your email inbox. – As a first step, cancel any email newsletter subscriptions that you do not read anymore.
  清理你的收件箱。第一步，删掉每一封你再也用不着看的时事订阅刊。
• 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”。
• In short, you'll pare down the problem spots that are coming between you and your much-loved denim.
  总之，你和你深爱的牛仔裤之间的问题会越来越少。
• Pare down your list of possible occupations based on what you learned from your research.
  你做的调查尽的削减清单上的职业。
• 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。
• 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 were asked to pare down our budget.
  我们被要求削减预算。
• 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。