retrench
英 [r?'tren(t)?]美[ri'tr?nt?]
- vt. 刪除；減少；緊縮開支
- vi. 節省；緊縮
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?retrenches;過去式:?retrenched;過去分詞:?retrenched;現在分詞:?retrenching;名詞:?retrenchment;
中文詞源
retrench 節約，縮減
re-,向后，往回，-trench,砍，劈，詞源同 truncate,trunk.引申詞義節約，縮減。 retrial 復審，再審
英文詞源
- retrench
- retrench: [16] Retrench originally meant literally ‘dig a new trench as a second line of defence’. It was borrowed from early modern French retrencher, a descendant of Old French retrenchier. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and trenchier ‘cut off’ (source of English trench, trenchant, etc). The standard present-day sense of retrench, ‘cut back, economize’, first recorded in the 17th century, is a return to the underlying meaning of French retrencher.
=> trench, trenchant - retrench (v.1)
- 1590s, "dig a new trench as a second line of defense," 1590s, probably a back-formation from retrenchment in the military sense. Related: Retrenched; retrenching.
- retrench (v.2)
- "cut off, cut down, pare away" (expenses, etc.), 1620s, from obsolete French retrencher "to cut off, lessen, shorten" (Modern French retrancher, Old French retrenchier), from re- "back" (see re-) + Old French trenchier "to cut" (see trench). Related: Retrenched; retrenching.
雙語例句
- 1. Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
- 不久之后，國防開支的削減迫使航空航天業緊縮開支。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Inflation has forced us to retrench.
- 因通貨膨脹我們不得不緊縮開支.
來自辭典例句
- 3. The mess of Wall Street means the families have to retrench.
- 華爾街的動蕩對很多家庭來說意味著新一輪的勒緊腰帶過日子.
來自互聯網
- 4. As business is bad these days, we have to retrench.
- 由于最近生意不景氣, 我們不得不緊縮開支.
來自互聯網
- 5. Why don't you retrench then - scrape up, hoard , economise?
- 那么你為什么不節約一下 —— 積累一點, 儲蓄一點, 省吃儉用一些 呢 ?
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