首页英语词典downsizedownsize的意思

downsize怎么读？

downsize

英 ['daʊnsaɪz] 美['daʊnsaɪz]

考试真题实用场景例句

vt. 以较小尺寸设计；缩小尺寸；裁减人数

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词态变化

第三人称单数: downsizes;过去式: downsized;过去分词: downsized;现在分词: downsizing;名词: downsizing;

英文词源

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.

双语例句

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.