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

• She pared the two corns on her little toes.
  她削去小脚趾上的两个鸡眼。
• 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。
• In the reign of Their rights had been pared away under the last three kings.
  前三任国王统治期间他们的权利被一层一层地剥夺了。
• This would mean slicing into food budgets already pared to the bone.
  这将意味着在已削减到最低限度的食品预算上再切一刀。
• He took out a slab of cheese, pared off a slice and ate it hastily.
  他拿出一大块奶酪，切下一片，匆忙吃了。
• 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。
• And that she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of pared mold of your hand.
  如果你能剪掉指甲，用石膏做一只自己的手的模型送给你妈，我希望她会给你拥抱和亲吻。
• 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。
• Father pared the apple, and cut into five slices for his five children.
  父亲削好苹果后，切成五等份，给我们兄妹五人每人一小片。
• Industrial production came blasting back and declines in exports were less precipitous, as inventories were already pared.
  工业生产强劲回升，出口跌势趋缓，而库存已经缩减。