retrench是什么意思_retrench怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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.
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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.

词态变化

第三人称单数 retrenches;
过去式 retrenched;
过去分词 retrenched;
现在分词 retrenching;
名词 retrenchment;

1. 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。

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Why don"t you retrench then - scrape up, hoard , economise?: 那么你为什么不节约一下 —— 积累一点, 储蓄一点, 省吃俭用一些呢 ?

economize 节约

lessen 减少

abridge 删节

shave 刮

shorten 弄短

cut back 削减

save 救

tighten your belt 勒紧腰带(忍饥受寒...

draw in your horns 打退堂鼓(缩减)...

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