to cut down

基本解釋

While this is sure to cut down the food we waste, I’m not sure it will save us any money.
當(dāng)然這樣在一定程序上會(huì)減少食物的浪費(fèi)，我不知道它會(huì)節(jié)省多少錢。
If I had a leg of lamb for every time I heard a woman tell me that she has given up red meat to cut down her fat and “be healthy”, I could open a butcher's shop.
每次當(dāng)我聽到一個(gè)女人跟我說她為了減少她的脂肪和保持健康狀態(tài)而放棄紅肉時(shí)，我想如果我有一只羊羔腿，我可以去開肉店。
Although she had only one arm, she didn’t believe in sparing the rod, or, in her case, the paddle, into which she had bored holes to cut down on the wind resistance.
盡管她只有一只胳膊，卻信奉“棒下出高徒”的教條。她使用的是一根扁條刑杖，中間鉆了些小洞，以減少風(fēng)阻，不會(huì)造成真實(shí)的傷害。

The Lebanese military says it soldiers opened fire when the Israelis strayed across the border to cut down a tree.
When we're doing something that is interactive, we have to cut down on the detail of what we're doing because we can't support that in real time, but nonetheless there're lots of things we can do interactively.
當(dāng)我們?cè)谧鲆恍?互動(dòng)性的項(xiàng)目時(shí)，我們需要減少,正在做的細(xì)節(jié),因?yàn)樵趯?shí)際時(shí)間里,我們并沒有足夠時(shí)間支持它，但是還有很多其他東西,可以做得具有互動(dòng)性。
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And if the other countries aren't going to cut down on their fishing, then you want to catch the fish now, because there aren't going to be any there tomorrow.
如果其他國家不打算減少捕撈量,那么你現(xiàn)在就想先把魚都撈起來,因?yàn)闆]準(zhǔn)明天就會(huì)無魚可撈了
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The biotech is actually restricting Avastin sales now to cut down on unapproved use.
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