基本释义
- vi.
- 紧缩开支
- vt.
- 削减（费用）; 节省
词性变化
- 第三人称单数:retrenches;
- 过去式:retrenched;
- 过去分词:retrenched;
- 现在分词:retrenching;
- 名词:retrenchment;
实用例句
[不可数名词, 可数名词]a period of retrenchment
开支紧缩时期
牛津词典
Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
不久之后，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。
Inflation has forced us to retrench.
因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支.
辞典例句
They must retrench their expenditure for the purpose of making up the deficit.
为了弥补赤字,他们必须压缩开支.
期刊摘选
It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply.
它不是保守消极的政策, 更不是收缩货币供应.
期刊摘选
Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.
灾难预言者坚持认为,政府违约就在眼前: 赶紧忏悔和缩减开支吧,否则就太晚了.
期刊摘选
The company had to retrench.
该公司必须节省开支.
期刊摘选
The mess of Wall Street means the families have to retrench.
华尔街的动荡对很多家庭来说意味着新一轮的勒紧腰带过日子.
期刊摘选
Explain: for the sake of retrench disk spcae.
说明: 为节省磁盘空间、减少记录量,键盘及鼠标动作即开始监视,停止动作一段时间后停止监视. (请注意观看电影等特殊情况)
期刊摘选
As business is bad these days, we have to retrench.
由于最近生意不景气, 我们不得不紧缩开支.
期刊摘选
Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
不久之后，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。
柯林斯例句
英英释义
1. tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
2. make a reduction, as in one's workforce;
"The company had to retrench"