In the late 1990s, a lot of the military bands were being downsized.

20世纪90年代末，许多军乐队都在裁。

Who cares? It's time to downsize, minimize my carbon footprint.

谁在乎啊? 我是时候过过低碳生活了。

So, we really had to downsize!

所以我们必须要小空间！

With fewer journalism students at universities and media companies downsizing or shuddering.

随着大学和媒体公司新闻系学生少，这些学校和企业不得不缩体量。

All right. So how much downsizing are we up for? Townhouse? Condo?

好吧，那我们要降级到什么程度？住排房？还是公寓？

Potato crisps, for example, have continued to downsize amid shrinkflation, says Dworsky.

德沃斯基说，以薯片为例，在缩水式通胀情下，薯片尺寸不断缩小。

And if we get this, they might not have to downsize our branch.

如果能签下这笔订单，我们分部或许就不用了。

And it's from the world of business that the word 'downsize' originated.

downsize这个单词正是从商业领域中产生。

'Given current sales, we're going to have to downsize by thirty percent.'

鉴于眼下销售量，我们将裁3%工。

The word we are going to focus on today is the verb to downsize.

今天我们要关注单词是动词精简。

For example, to deal with the recent revenue loss, the company resorted to downsizing.

例如，为了应对最近收入损失，该公司采取了裁措施。

It took years for banks to downsize in the wake of the global financial crisis.

在全球金融危机之后，银行花了数年时间才缩规模。

This may mean bragging about their wins and trying to downsize each other's achievements.

这可能意味着吹嘘他们胜利、试图贬低对方成就。

It's led to people selling their houses downsizing and even moving in with other family.

这导致人们卖掉自己房子，缩成本，甚至搬到其他家庭居住。

They downsize the Bears Ears monument area by 85 percent, and Grand Staircase-Escalante by half.

熊耳国家纪念地面积将缩85%，大升梯－埃斯卡兰特将少一半。

Later on in the game, she was also downsized and had a child. It was a horrible game for her.

在后来游戏中，她在“下岗”格停过，还添了一个孩子，不用说，这个游戏对她来说简直糟透了。

Everyone is in crisis management at the moment, in downsizing mode, not in growth mode definitely.

目前每个人都处于危机管理, 精简模式, 而不是绝对增长模式。

Our saying today is " see you on the other side" , from the movie " Downsizing" .

我们今天短语是 see you on the other side，出自电影《缩小人生》。

Yes. When they make workers redundant the companies become smaller in size. They downsize.

对。downsize就是通过裁来缩公司规模。

How dare you! And anyway, we don't use 'downsize' for bodies, so you're confusing our audience!

你怎么敢这么说！不过，在形容身材时我们不用downsize这个词，你会让我们观众困惑！