1.(在...)裁员,(对...)实行机构精简
1.to reduce the size of a business or organization, especially by cutting the work force
2.to make something physically smaller, or produce something in a smaller size
3.to make a company or organization smaller by reducing the number of workers
1.Some have no doubt been forced to take up the temping life after being downsized in the recession.
毫无疑问某些人也是在经济萧条期被裁减后被迫无奈采取了临时工作生涯。
2.At least some of us, judging by the people we see in our new neighborhood, are joining me in trying out a downsized lifestyle.
根据我们在新社区中所看到的人判断，至少有些人正像我一样尝试着更简单的生活方式。
3.Even product development is getting downsized. The company used to make three regional variations of the Focus.
即使产品开发计划有所缩减，公司还是对Focus做了区域性的调整。
4.The ring-fence is important, but that doesn't help the fact that the actual contents of that budget have been drastically downsized.
保护政策是很重要，但是对于预算中实际有效的成分的大幅减少的事实，它没能帮上忙。
5.Plus, if you 've recently been downsized , you have time to develop your idea and perhaps even a bit of severance money to help fund it .
还有就是如果你最近失业，你就有时间开发你的灵感，甚至有可能用遣散基金来实现它。
6.He received a generous pension when downsized from his job as director of partner relationships for a large Silicon Valley company.
当被从一家大硅谷公司伙伴关系处总监被裁后，他获得了一笔不小的抚恤金。
7.As factories in the U. S. are downsized and closed, Reilly says that he would see China "becoming a significant exporter" of passenger cars.
随着美国工厂的缩减规模或关闭，雷利称中国会成为客车“重要的出口国”。
8.Kinney moved to Valencia, California, about a year ago as her company in Dayton, Ohio, downsized.
由于凯莉在美国代顿（俄亥俄州）的公司缩编，她大约在一年以前移居到了加州的巴伦西亚（Valencia）。
9.If the CEO is the enterprise, then everyone else is a "human resource" , to be "downsized" en masse at the drop of an earnings report.
如果CEO是大型企业，那么其他每个人就是一个“人力资源”，当收益报表下降时大批“人力资源”就会被裁。
10.A democratic government would have to cohabit with the army and maybe also with a (downsized) President Musharraf.
新成立的民主政府需要学会如何与军方，或许和（权力减少的）穆沙拉夫总统一同执政。