pare down
英 [peə(r) daʊn]
美 [per daʊn]
减少；削减
英英释义
verb
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
双语例句
- He took pains to pare and polish himself down to the pattern of the rest of the world, but he never succeeded.
他煞费苦心地要把自己修饰得能赶上潮流，可是他始终没能如愿以偿。 - I did want to pare down my political involvements to a minimum.
我的确想尽量少参加些政治活动。 - 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。 - Whatever the reason, there are several grassroots movements afoot that have average Joes trying to pare down their possessions and do more living with less stuff.
不论是什么原因，有一些属于草根们的活动，一些普通人正在进行着，来减少自己的所有物，更少的东西带来更多的生活。 - 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 were asked to pare down our budget.
我们被要求削减预算。 - 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。 - 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。 - With less money coming in, we had to pare down household expenses.
收入减少了，我们不得不紧缩家庭开支。 - In other words they instinctively pare down the solution space and have a well-developed sense of which parts of it are most likely to yield results.
换句话说，他们会本能地削减解决方案空间，而且对于哪一部分更有可能产生结果，他们的感觉更加敏锐。