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

• We are going to scale down the number of trees being felled.
  我们要减少砍伐的树的数量。
• Organizations developing simpler applications or that are willing to assume increased risk may scale down some aspects of this ideal environment.
  开发简单一些的应用程序或愿意假定风险是逐步增加的组织可以按比例地缩小这个理想的环境的某些方面。
• 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。
• One of the key tenets of the Cloud is Elasticity, which is the ability to scale out and scale down on demand.
  云的重要原则之一就是伸缩性，它可以按照客户需求提供资源。
• The difficulties have led Chinese policymakers to scale down their short-term ambitions.
  这些困难导致中国政策制定者降低了短期抱负。
• Well, why don't we sit down and work out the numbers? We can always scale down the bonuses if we have to.
  好的，为什么不坐下来说算下奖金的数额，我们可以按比例来分配奖金如果我们有足够的资金的话。
• 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。
• 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。
• They believe that Iraq will soon scale down the target.
  他们认为伊拉克将很快下调目标。
• 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。