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

• 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。
• The DB2 pureScale feature addresses capacity and availability issues by providing an easier way to scale up or to scale down while making sure that the entire database is always available.
  通过提供一个更简单的方法来向上和向下缩放，同时确保整个数据库随时可用，DB2pureScale特性解决了容量和可用性问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Well, why don't we sit down and work out the numbers? We can always scale down the bonuses if we have to.
  好的，为什么不坐下来说算下奖金的数额，我们可以按比例来分配奖金如果我们有足够的资金的话。
• If the level of infiltration or our casualties increase while we are trying to scale down the fighting, it will be the result of a conscious decision by the enemy.
  如果渗透的标准或我们的人员伤亡增加同时我们将会设法按规定的比例减小战争，这将是一个敌人有意识决定的结果。
• 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。
• Is there a way to scale down the story and still deliver something of value to the customer in the current release?
  是否能够通过某种方法缩小用户描述，同时仍然能够在当前发行版中为用户交付一些价值？