retrench

vi.紧缩开支

vt.削减（费用）；节省

verb

1. 节约；紧缩开支
   to spend less money; to reduce costs
2. 缩减（人员）
   to tell sb that they cannot continue working for you

vt. 删除；减少；紧缩开支 vi. 节省；紧缩

现在分词:retrenching 过去式:retrenched 第三人称单数:retrenches 过去分词:retrenched

1. Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
   不久之后，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。
2. Corporate profitability has also been weak for a while, suggesting that companies will want to retrench rather than invest even if interest rates are lower.
   一段时间以来，企业盈利水平也一直不高，这意味着即便利率下降，企业想的也将是紧缩开支、而不是投资。
3. Mr. Clark of Emirates cautioned that many global carriers could be forced to retrench.
   克拉克提醒说，全球很多航空公司可能都会被迫压缩开支。
4. Competition from cheaper imports is forcing manufacturers to retrench.
   廉价进口商品的竞争迫使生产者紧缩开支。
5. Assume that many of the latter now retrench.
   假设许多赤字国家现在都开始收缩财政。
6. But is it already time to retrench?
   但现在已到了紧缩的时候吗？
7. The downturn in profitability will redraw the industry landscape, analysts and executives say, forcing traditional producers to retrench and consolidate, and accentuating the rise of China as an aluminium powerhouse.
   分析师与高管们认为，盈利能力下滑将改写行业格局，迫使传统生产商削减成本或者合并，同时将更加突显出中国发展为铝业大国的趋势。
8. EXAMPLE: 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。
9. As they retrench to their domestic market, they face decreasing margins because of fiercer competition.
   由于各银行收缩业务专注于本国市场，那么它们会面临由更加激烈的竞争造成利润日益减少的局面。
10. 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？”
11. The application of orthogonal experiment can reduce the time of experiment, and shorten the period of experiment, and retrench the expense of experiment and improve the quality of motor design.
    将正交试验法应用于微电机的设计改进，不仅可以减少试验次数，缩短试验周期，而且大大节约了试验经费，提高了电机设计质量。
12. Many Asian Nations depend on foreign banks for much of their funding, raising the prospect of a credit crunch as cash-starved foreign banks either retrench or raise the price of their loans.
    许多亚洲国家在很大程度上依靠外资银行进行融资，随着现金匮乏的外资银行要么削减放贷，要么提高贷款价格，就会有发生信贷危机的可能。
13. It is not obvious, in addition, who would act as the world's borrower of last resort, should US households retrench.
    此外，如果美国家庭紧缩开支，看不出来谁会成为全球最后的借款人。
14. Japanese companies convinced that future growth will be found outside their own country are committing themselves to new investments in China even as they continue to retrench and restructure at home.
    坚信未来增长将来自国外的日本企业，正对在中国的新投资作出承诺，即便它们在国内继续缩减和重组。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. Why, it is only an hour since I read a cablegram in the newspapers beginning "Russia Proposes to Retrench."
    因为还只是一个钟点以前，我在报上读到一段新闻，一开头便说：“俄国准备实行节约。”
18. Inflation has forced us to retrench.
    因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支。
19. Credit will shrink, businesses will wait to hire and expand, and consumers will further retrench.
    如此一来，信贷将收缩、企业将推迟招聘与扩张、消费者将进一步削减开支。
20. Since a clean default is impossible, governments will have no choice but to retrench, however painful the consequences.
    由于单纯的违约不可能发生，相关国家政府将没有选择，只能缩减开支，无论结果如何痛苦。
21. Historically, many firms see the challenges and retrench.
    历史上，许多公司看到挑战后就采取缩减措施。
22. Why don't you retrench then-scrape up, hoard, economise?
    那么你为什么不节约一下积累一点，储蓄一点，省吃俭用一些呢？
23. Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.
    灾难预言者坚持认为，政府违约就在眼前：赶紧忏悔和缩减开支吧，否则就太晚了。
24. However, it is the knock-on effects that are troubling analysts, banks and other companies in Asia, as European lenders retrench and shrink their balance sheets, sucking capital out of the region.
    然而，令亚洲分析师、银行及其它企业担心的，是此次危机的连锁效应。因为欧洲银行削减并收缩了自己的资产负债表，将资金撤出亚洲。
25. We must retrench the administrative structure, strengthen the legal institution construction to provide basic social conditions for the innovation of state-owned enterprise system.
    必须精简政府机构，加强法制建设，为企业制度创新提供基本的社会环境。
26. The Function of the Anticipated Likelihood: Expansion or Retrench
    期待可能性的机能：扩张或紧缩
27. Exact prediction of the silicon content can help foreman to enhance operation level and retrench coke rate.
    炉温的准确预报，将有助于工长提高操作水平，从而达到提高利用系数和降低焦比的目的。
28. With the rapid development of Internet and information technology, the information of office platform is one request for the establishing enterprises to improve the office efficiency and retrench the structure.
    随着互联网的出现与迅速发展，信息技术步伐的加快，办公平台信息化是目前企事业单位提高办公效率和机构精简改革趋势的一个要求。
29. Data redundancies lead to waste of bits, eliminating redundancies can retrench codes, and this is the aim of data compress.
    数据冗余造成比特数浪费，消除这些冗余可以节约码字，也就是达到了数据压缩的目的。