| 词汇 | pare |
| 释义 | pare verb[ Toften+ adv/prep ] uk /peər/ us /per/ to cut away the outer layer from something, especially a fruit or a vegetable: 削（尤指水果或蔬菜的）皮 He was busy paring apples in the kitchen.他正忙着在厨房里削苹果。 Pare off any bits of the carrots that don't look very nice.把胡萝卜看上去不太好的地方都削掉。 to reduce something, especially by a large amount: （尤指大量地）削减，减少 The three-hour play has been pared (down/back) to two hours.这出三个小时的戏被缩短成了两小时。 Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables core hull peel pit pitted seed seeded shell shelling shuck skinless spud bashing stone stoned top top and tailidiom unpeeled unshelled winnow You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making smaller or less Idiompare something (down) to the bone pare | American Dictionarypare verb[ T ] us/peər/ to cut away the thin outer layer of something, esp. food, or to reduce the size of something: [ M ]He turned the blade to pare off a piece of cheese. [ M ]We have to pare down and eliminate the waste and inefficiency. [ T ]Simon had to pare the play. pare | Business Englishpare verb[ T ] uk /peər/us to reduce an amount or number of something: The city manager is trying to pare down the number of tax-exempt organizations that donate to the city. Each department should submit plans to pare 2.5% from their budgets this fiscal year. Examples of parepare However, we have heard few real proposals so far about where he intends to make the cuts and where resources are to be pared back. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Unfortunately, this railway network has, in the last 15 years, been pared down, and there have been cutbacks also in the maintenance of it. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In times when budgets are being pared to the bone, the follow-up costs for new prestige projects are often neglected. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Presumably it could exist without that, but if you pare away everything which there is equal reason to pare away, you are left with something very strange. Through a rearrangement and a paring down of our present policies we can find the resources that are necessary to finance the enlargement of 100 million people. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English My personal recommendation would be to be a little more realistic here, and perhaps to pare down the agenda. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I say that a little more paring would be useful in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to see a penny pared off research and development in this field. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Senior posts need to be pared and the status of women in the secretariat needs to be enhanced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They again asked for a number of alterations, and some were made, but the company were not pre- pared to make them all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall be quite pre pared to announce them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He will also be aware of the deep anxiety which many of us feel that our ground forces have already been pared to the bone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An advisory opinion under article 96 by the court becomes, in effect, a judgment inter pares. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The allegation that we distorted the record is pared down to a tiny philosophical point, and then practically dropped altogether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were pre- pared to do our best to see that there should be no famine in this land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of pare These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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