scale back
英 [skeɪl bæk]
美 [skeɪl bæk]
缩小; 缩减; 减弱
牛津词典
- 以上各词均含减少、缩小之义，尤指削减经费、缩减生意。
These words all mean to reduce the amount or size of sth, especially of an amount of money or a business. - 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费、开支、收入或生意规模）：
to reduce sth, especially an amount of money that is demanded, spent, earned, etc. or the size of a business- The President has promised to cut taxes significantly.
总统承诺大幅度减税。 - Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want.
买主会竭力讨价还价以压低他们想买的房子的价格。 - His salary has been cut by ten per cent.
他的薪金减少了百分之十。 - Could you cut your essay from 5 000 to 3 000 words?
请把你的文章从5 000字删减至3 000字好吗？
- The President has promised to cut taxes significantly.
- （常用于报章）指大幅度削减、大大降低：
[often passive] ( rather informal ) (often used in newspapers) to reduce sth by a large amount- The workforce has been slashed by half.
职工人数裁减了一半。
- The workforce has been slashed by half.
- 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费或生意）：
to reduce sth, especially an amount of money or business- We had to cut back production.
我们只得减产。
- We had to cut back production.
- 指削减、缩减、裁减（尤指经费或生意）：
( especially NAmE or business ) to reduce sth, especially an amount of money or business- The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
国际货币基金组织已经调低对未来十年的增长预测。
- The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
- 指对企业或制度进行合理化改革，使合理化、使有经济效益
( BrE , business ) to make changes to a business or system, in order to make it more efficient, especially by spending less money - 指公司或机构精简人员以降低成本。
( business ) to make a company or organization smaller by reducing the number of jobs in it, in order to reduce costs - 指减少（数量）、缩小（规模或范围）：
to reduce the number, size or extent of sth- We are scaling down our training programmes next year.
我们将在明年缩小培训计划。
- We are scaling down our training programmes next year.
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 同 scale down
Toscale backmeans the same as toscale down.- Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
尽管目前在价格上占据优势，英国生产商还是不得不减少产量。
- Despite current price advantage, UK manufacturers are still having to scale back production.
双语例句
- For 2012, PIA plans to scale back his equities trading and return to commodities.
2012年，皮亚计划缩减股票交易，回归大宗商品。 - That's how we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine reinforcing our current system of more treatment rather than better care.
只有这样，我们才能避免那些过度的，用于防御诉讼的治疗和用药，让我们的医疗系统真正实现更好的医疗服务，而不是更多的诊疗。 - The cold weather has caused scores of factories and power plants to scale back production because of shortages of supplies of coal and other raw materials, although the likely impact on Chinese overall output is expected to be minimal.
由于煤炭和其它原材料供应紧张，寒冷的天气已经导致数十家工厂和电厂减产，不过，预计这对中国总体产出的影响可能是微乎其微。 - Western powers will hope a new round of economic sanctions might force Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions.
西方大国会希望，新一轮的经济制裁或许可以迫使伊朗收敛核野心。 - That sluggish performance and concerns about China's slowdown have led traders to scale back bets on renminbi appreciation.
这种低迷的表现，加之对于中国经济放缓的担忧，已促使交易员们缩减对人民币升值的押注。 - A sustained recovery would also help scale back the losses experienced by the Msref fund.
持续的经济复苏，也将有助于缩减摩根士丹利房地产基金的亏损规模。 - The IMF and independent forecasters have been forced to scale back expectations of economic growth, revising their annual forecasts down in every region since 2010.
IMF和独立预测机构被迫下调经济增长预期，向下修正了所有地区2010年以来的年度增长预测数字。 - Compute as a Service can be used to access virtualized servers to quickly expand compute capacity when needed and scale back when requirements change.
计算即服务（ComputeasaService）可以用于访问虚拟服务器，在需要的时候迅速扩展计算容量，并在需求变化时相应地缩小。 - Emily Rybinski, director of marketing for the Charleston Symphony, says she and her husband, who live in Johns Island, S.C., will scale back on spending as a result of the pay cut.
查尔斯顿交响乐团的市场总监艾米利•罗宾斯基（EmilyRybinski）说，由于薪水减少，她和住在南卡罗来纳州约翰岛的丈夫将削减家庭开支。 - You may need to scale back on your variable expenses.
如果支出与收入不符你就需要对可变开支进行调整。