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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Linux is enjoying a well-deserved surge in popularity for mobile and embedded applications, owing to its ability to scale down to the small footprint needed to run efficiently in compact devices.
  在移动和嵌入式应用程序方面，Linux受到当之无愧的欢迎，这是因为它能够根据小型设备有效运行所需的资源开销按比例进行缩减。
• Such switches should be able to scale down to nearly single-atom dimensions-which suggests just how far the future miniaturization of electronic circuitry might someday go.
  这种开关应该可以缩小到接近单原子的尺度&这表示未来电子电路的微型化可以走得很远。
• 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。
• At least part of the apparent growth in Chinese demand has been the result of a build up in inventories and the clampdown on lending has meant some Chinese commodities traders are struggling to finance their physical positions, meaning they may have to scale down stockpiles.
  此前中国需求增长显著，至少有一部分是增加库存所致，而遏制放贷已造成中国部分大宗商品交易商难以筹措资金维持实物仓位，这意味着他们可能不得不减少库存。