pared

英 [peəd]

美 [perd]

v.  削皮; 去皮; 逐步减小(数量或体积); 使缩小; 修剪(指甲等)
pare的过去分词和过去式

过去式：pared　

柯林斯词典

• See also:Pare the brown skin from the meat with a very sharp knife...He took out a slab of cheese, pared off a slice and ate it hastily....thinly pared lemon rind.paring
• VERB 削减；减少
  If youparesomethingdownorback, or if youpareit, you reduce it.
  1. The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third...
     部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
  2. The luxury tax won't really do much to pare down the budget deficit...
     奢侈品税其实对削减预算赤字并不会有多少帮助。
  3. The United States can pare back its military presence in Asia as well...
     美国还可以削减其在亚洲的军事力量。
  4. Local authorities must pare their budgets.
     地方政府必须削减预算。

双语例句

• The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third
  部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
• Over the past year or so Spain has pared pensions and written debt limits into the constitution.
  过去一年多来，西班牙双管齐下，一方面削减养老金，另一方面将债务限额写进宪法。
• The rough edges need to be pared off.
  毛糙的边角需要修掉。
• The potatoes were pared and cut into chunks.
  马铃薯被削了皮并切成了块。
• Hong Kong also extended its recent winning run, although it pared an early advance as investors opted to book profits.
  香港也延续了近期的连涨，但投资者选择获利兑现，缩小了盘初涨幅。
• Our budget has been pared to the bone.
  我们的预算已削减到最低限度。
• Companies also pared dividends, cutting into investor returns.
  但经过90年代之后，股市市值变得过高，企业也削减股息，降低了投资者回报。
• I should like to see this apparatus pared down to the weakest and most natural set of assumptions that might still provide an adequate foundation for the scientific applications.
  我希望这套装置能削减至最弱化的和最自然的一组假定，而仍可以为其在科学上的应用提供合适的基础。
• He pared each stick down to a thin strip.
  他把那些木棍儿都削得细细儿的。
• Although forecasts for France and Germany were pared back slightly compared to commission forecasts last autumn, they remained significantly stronger than for Southern counterparts.
  尽管与去年秋季相比，欧盟委员会对法国和德国的预测略有降低，但它们依然远强于欧洲南部国家。