retrench

[ri'trentʃ]

v.减少开支,削减花费

例句与用法：

Inflation has forced us to retrench.

因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支。

词形变化：

名词: retrencher | 动词过去式: retrenched | 动词过去分词: retrenched | 动词现在分词: retrenching | 动词第三人称单数: retrenches |

vt.

节省; 删除; 缩短

vi.

节约

retrench

过去式：retrenched

过去分词：retrenched

现在进行时：retrenching

词形变化：

名词: retrencher | 动词过去式: retrenched | 动词过去分词: retrenched | 动词现在分词: retrenching | 动词第三人称单数: retrenches |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

economize

lessen

shorten

shave

abridge

反义参见:

enlarge

retrench[ri'trentʃ; ri:-]vt.1.■减少；紧缩(开支)；节约(经费):They must retrench their expenditure for the purpose of making up the deficit.为了弥补赤字，他们必须压缩开支。2.■删除；省略(书中部分内容)：She retrenched her speech reluctantly.她勉强地把她的演说删去了一部分。The last chapter was retrenched from the book.书中最后一章被删掉。vi.1.■节省；紧缩开支：As business is bad these days,we have to retrench.由于最近生意不景气，我们不得不紧缩开支。

1. [no obj.](of a company, government, or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty
   （公司、政府或个人）削减费用，削减开支
   as a result of the recession the company retrenched.
   受经济衰退的影响公司削减开支。
   [with obj.]if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer.
   如果人们被迫削减开支，贸易会受到影响。
   ■[with obj.](chiefly Austral.)make (an employee) redundant
   (主澳)解雇（雇员)，裁减
   if there are excess staff they should be retrenched.
   如果超员，就应该裁员。
   ■[with obj.](formal)reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity
   (正式)削减，减少
   fortune had retrenched her once abundant gifts.
   命运使她不如以前多才多艺。
   

1. late 16th cent. (in the now formal usage): from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher 'to cut, slice'
   

retrench

动词 retrench:

tighten one's belt; use resources carefully

make a reduction, as in one's workforce

retrench

■* If they were to be able to send their children to college, they would have to retrench.

*如果他们能够送子女上大学，他们将不得不紧缩。

■Refrigerated Van which can Retrench Energy

一种节能型冷藏汽车

■We speciality products “shengshui” serisers product of water supply , water retrench, water cleanes , protect environment and “shuangyi” serisers products of water meters.

专业生产“申水”系列给水、节水、及环保和“双屹”系列水表产品。

■They must retrench their expenditure for the purpose of making up the deficit.

为了弥补赤字，他们必须压缩开支。

■In order to retrench the data quantity, eight step Chebyshelv polynomial function parameters and ls rate precise clock corrections are broadcasted.

为了节省传送的数据量,数据分析中心向用户站发播八阶切比雪夫多项式拟合系数和一秒更新率的卫星钟差。

■They had to retrench in order to buy a new house.

他们为了买一套新房子不得不节省开支。

■They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt

他们必须节省开支，这是毋庸置疑的。

■Are you aware how to mount retrench(or enlarge) mode of the copycat?

你知道怎么将复印机设定在缩印(放大)模式上吗?

■make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration

使比原计划的要短；在长度或持续时间上减少或节省

■make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.

使比原计划的要短；在长度或持续时间上减少或节省。

■Is the credit crunch forcing firms to retrench directly?

信贷紧缩会迫使各企业立即节衣缩食，勒紧裤腰带吗？

■retrench one's expenses

减少支出

■retrench one's expenditure

减少花费.

■1.to reduce; to cut down; to retrench; to diminish; 2.to abbreviate; to condense

减缩

■Prevent the village autonomy organization regime of the people to melt, retrench county and town vigorously (town), people and the organization of village;

制止村民自治组织政权化，大力精简县、乡（镇）、村的机构与人员；

■The mess of Wall Street means the families have to retrench.

华尔街的动荡对很多家庭来说意味着新一轮的勒紧腰带过日子。

■cut down (or reduce) expenses; retrench

压缩开支

■He had given her some hints last spring in town; he had gone so far even as to say, “Can we retrench?”

去春进城时，他向她做了一些暗示，甚至把话说到这个地步:“我们可以节省些开支吗?”

■He had given her some hints last spring in town; he had gone so far even as to say, "Can we retrench?"

去春进城时，他向她做了一些暗示，甚至把话说到这个地步：“我们可以节省些开支吗?”

■Accordingly, the spunlace nonwovens process needs a lot of water.However, it is better to circulate the water to retrench water resource and the cost.

因此,水刺非织造工艺需要用到大量的水,而循环使用工艺水才能节约水资源,减少生产成本。

■1. Inflation has forced us to retrench .

因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支.

■Inflation has forced us to retrench.

因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支。

■It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply

它不是保守消极的政策，更不是收缩货币供应。

■Households will retrench as unemployment rises and those with jobs fear they may lose them.

家庭由于失业的增加和对可能失业的恐惧而支出减少。

■When companies retrench, they say, "What do customers come to us for?

当公司裁员的时候，他们会考虑：为什么客户会光顾我们？

■I am planning to retrench my expenses.

我正在打算减少支出。

■real wage rises when technology deflects to retrench capital.

技术进步偏向利用劳动、节约资本时，实际工资呈上升趋势。

■Investors retrench.

投资者对此持谨慎态度。

■cut down expenses; economize; retrench

撙省

■retrench; cut down expenses

撙节开支

■In the area applying rodenticide only on rat s habitat, the effects of rodent control were high and retrench man-hour.

栖息地化学灭鼠效果高又省工。

■After all, the funds have spread their wings during relatively benign conditions, and may retrench if the credit cycle turns with a vengeance.

毕竟，对冲基金是在相对良性的条件下实现扩张的，如果信贷周期出现严重反转，其规模可能萎缩。

■Falling oil prices and a plummeting real-estate market forced many big Dubai investors to retrench and rethink projects, particularly ones far from home.

油价的下跌和房地产市场的暴跌迫使迪拜的许多大投资者削减和重新考虑项目计划，特别是那些远离家门的项目。

■Sure, consumers have lost a good part of their wealth, and this is reason enough for them to retrench.

消费者的财富大幅度缩水，这就理所当然地构成他们缩减开支的理由。

■As business is bad these days,we have to retrench.

由于最近生意不景气，我们不得不紧缩开支。

■Because the regional economy has turned bad and our sales are low, we have decided to retrench and postpone plans to build a new manufacturing plant next year.

由于该地区的经济已经转糟，而且我们的销售额很低，我们决定紧缩开支，推迟明年建造新制造厂的计划。

■We must retrench during paroxysms, for to exhibit food would be injurious. And in all diseases having periodical paroxysms, we must restrict during the paroxysms.

疾病发作时必须减少食量,否则有害无益。凡周期发作之疾病,发作时必须节食。

■Key recommendations of that report included the need (i) to redefine the role of government and retrench involvement in areas that are best handled by the market;

研究报告的核心建议包括：1）重新界定政府角色，从那些市场可以做得最好的领域中退出；

■Without a Christmas behind or ahead, companies will retrench in the domestic market.

离开圣诞节，公司将会在国内市场采取紧缩政策。

■While private banks retrench, state ones are expanding their lending vigorously.

私人银行收缩的同时，国有银行大幅度扩张贷款规模。

■cut expenses; retrench

精简开支

■cut down expenses; retrench; curtail outlay

紧缩开支

■retrench expenditure

紧缩开支,节省支出

■As a result, Southwest can profitably add flights toattractive markets, even as other carriers are forced to retrench.

结果，西南航空可以在有吸引力的市场增加航班，还能有利可图，而其他运营商却不得不缩减规模。

■retrench administrative staff

缩减行政人员

■No prize for guessing which has the prettiest balance sheet and is the only supermajor to boost exploration spending substantially this year as others retrench.

考虑到埃克森美孚是世界上最大的公司，上述比较是否公平呢？多少还是公平的。八年来，随着康菲石油试图打入世界前列，该公司的累计勘探支出实际上要高于埃克森美孚。

■The more they do so, the bigger the burden of Japan's debt becomes, and the more households and firms are likely to retrench.

而物价下降得越厉害，国债的负担就会变得越发沉重，更多的家庭和公司会缩减开支。

■Now that only stellar borrowers with large down payments and hefty incomes get mortgages, we have seen the homebuilding and home-buying industry, and with it the economy, retrench.

而现在只有能付得起一大笔首付并且收入丰厚的优质借款者才能得到抵押贷款，我们已经看到住房建造业及住房销售业乃至整体经济的紧缩。

■cut down expenses; retrench

节省开支

■retrench funds

节省经费