cutback
音标:
美音:/ˈkʌtbæk/,英音:/ˈkʌtbæk/
听听基本释意:
外刊例句:
The BBC is facing cutbacks after the government announced in January that it would freeze the licence fee for two years.
在政府在一月份宣布将冻结许可费两年后,英国广播公司面临着削减。
—BBC
“The worst inflation in four decades is a direct result of President Biden’s spending spree and cutbacks on domestic energy production,” Mr. Ortiz said.
“四十年来最严重的通货膨胀是拜登总统大肆消费和削减国内能源生产的直接结果,”奥尔蒂斯先生说。
—Washington Times
The Düsseldorf-based company has sustained deep financial losses because of the Russian cutbacks.
这家总部位于杜塞尔多夫的公司因俄罗斯的裁员而蒙受了巨大的财务损失。
—New York Times
基本释意:
noun
a reduction in quantity or rate
n. 减少,削减;情节倒叙
同义词:
没有找到同义词
短释义:
A cutback is a decrease in something, usually money. A state cutback in funding for education might result in larger classes and fewer field trips.
削减是减少某些东西,通常是金钱。国家对教育经费的削减可能会导致更大的班级和更少的实地考察。
长释义:
During difficult economic times, money is scarce and cutbacks are almost inevitable. If your parents are having money troubles, there may be cutbacks in your allowance, and when state governments suffer, there are often cutbacks in aid for schools, roads, and people in need. In news reports, you’ll often hear phrases like "cutbacks in defense spending" or "cutbacks in overtime pay."
在经济困难时期,资金稀缺,削减开支几乎是不可避免的。如果你的父母有钱问题,你的津贴可能会被削减,当州政府受苦时,对学校、道路和有需要的人的援助通常会被削减。在新闻报道中,您经常会听到诸如“削减国防开支”或“削减加班费”之类的短语。
文学例句:
He says education cutbacks send "a message to the kids that they really don’t matter."
他说,教育削减“向孩子们传达了一个信息,那就是他们真的不重要。”
—Danza back in Philly to host fundraiser for school by ???
Congressional reaction to the article, published on MSNBC.com, was forceful enough to cause the department to scrap the cutbacks.
国会对这篇发表在 MSNBC.com 上的文章的反应强烈到足以使该部门取消削减开支。
—What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight by ???
"We have to trust our successors, and their successors, and theirs, to steer the project through a hundred years of political skulduggery, climate change, budget cutbacks and zombie apocalypses," he wrote.
他写道:“我们必须相信我们的继任者、他们的继任者和他们的继任者,能够引导该项目度过一百年的政治欺诈、气候变化、预算削减和僵尸末日。”
—David Mitchell has a new book, but you’ll have to wait 98 years to read it by Los Angeles Times
词源:
cutback (n.)also cut-back, "reduction" in expenditures, etc., by 1943, from the verbal phrase; see cut (v.) + back (adv.).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
cutback (n.) 也削减,“减少”支出等,到 1943 年,从口头短语;见 cut (v.) + back (adv.).Related entries & more
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