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

• 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。
• In order to make the micro mote as unobtrusive as possible, the scientists had to find a way to scale down the computer's battery size.
  为了让它尽量不引人注目，科学家们必须想方法减少电脑电池的大小。
• 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。
• Our need is not to scale down debt, but to raise huge amounts of new capital.
  我们所需要的不是减少债务，而是筹措庞大数额的新资金。
• This model can scale down to10 – 100 employee value-added reseller ( VAR) type of companies.
  这个模型所适用的规模也可以是拥有10–100雇员的增值二手商（VAR）公司。
• 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。
• They believe that Iraq will soon scale down the target.
  他们认为伊拉克将很快下调目标。
• Standard aviation technology, such as fixed wings and rotorised propulsion, does not scale down effectively for micro-UAVs smaller than the Wasp.
  标准的航空技术，例如固定机翼和螺旋桨推进，并没有有效地将微型无人机变得比蜂鸟无人机更小。
• 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。
• Inside a Shenyang factory that once churned out tractors, workers scale down, pouring molten iron into molds to make cast-iron fences and gates.
  在沈阳一间过往生产牵引机的工厂内，工人把熔铁倒进模型，制作铸铁栏杆与大门。