| 词汇 | pare down |
| 释义 | Phr V pare down pares, paring, pared pare down sth or pare sth down to reduce the size or amount of somethingA lot of companies have pared their staff down to a minimum. pared-down adjective (always before noun)It was a pared-down version of the play, lasting an hour and a half. pare down sth • pare sth down to reduce the size of something, by getting rid of what you do not need: An editor helped Seth to pare the book down to a readable length. It is likely the company will continue to pare down its workforce over the next few years.■ SIMILAR TO: trim down, cut backpared-down adj only before noun reduced in size: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee accepted a pared-down version of the bill on Wednesday. pare (something) down1. Literally, to shave off small pieces of something to make it smaller. You need to pare down your nails—they're like little daggers! If you pair the boards down on either side, they should fit into the space. 2. To reduce or decrease something in small increments. We've had to continually pare down out expenses ever since one of our investors pulled out. See if you can pare your report down a bit—15 pages is far too long. pare something down (to something)to cut someone down to something or a smaller size. I will have to pare the budget down to the minimum. I hope we can pare down the budget. After much arguing, we pared it down. pare downv. 1. To reduce the size of something by cutting or shaving off its outer layers; trim something: I pared down the tiles so that they would fit snugly together. The pegs were too big for the hole, so I pared them down with a pocketknife. 2. To reduce the size or amount of something by gradually taking away parts of it: We should pare down the supplies we keep in our storage room until we have only what we absolutely need. The article was too long, and it took me a long time to pare it down. |
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