cut down to

常見例句

On the left, some want banks cut down to size.
左派中，有人想要銀行削減規(guī)模。
Conservatives might normally be delighted to see the BBC—generally depicted as a den of lefties—cut down to size.
BBC被普遍看成是左派人士的巢穴，因此保守派通常樂意看到BBC進(jìn)行一定程度的削減。
Such knowledge can lead to excessive risk-taking and is one reason why Switzerland’s central bank has said the country’s two mega-banks may have to be cut down to size.
這樣的認(rèn)識(shí)會(huì)導(dǎo)致額外的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)并且也是為什么瑞士中央銀行說其國家的兩個(gè)大銀行必須被削減規(guī)模的原因。

But there was no man on the farm to cut it down and sell it.
To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.
更直接點(diǎn)，你們要去掉不真實(shí)的，除了這點(diǎn)還有膨脹的，過量的和裝飾的。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選
OK. Binary search is perhaps the simplest of the divide and conquer algorithms, and what does that mean? It says, in order to solve a problem, cut it down to a smaller problem and try and solve that one.
好了，二分搜索也許是,最簡(jiǎn)單的分治算法，這意味著什么？,也就是說，為了解決一個(gè)問題,把它切割成小的問題,然后再來一個(gè)個(gè)解決。
麻省理工公開課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)及編程導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

He said pointedly this week that he wanted the oligarchs cut down to size.
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In short, Jordan, bereft of its famous ruler, will be cut down to size.
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But the ratio says that if there is something that needs to be cut down to size, it's government.
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