down-sizing

基本解释

With so many teams down-sizing at the position, the Rockets had only traditional power forwards.
现在很多球队都有相对灵巧的大前锋，而火箭则只有传统大前。
We recommend sizing up vs. sizing down for those who are in-between whole sizes, as the leather upper will not stretch significantly.
我们建议vs。下审时度势上浆对那些介于全尺寸，为皮革上不会弹性显著。
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The girl bade me sit down on the foot-stool in front of the stove, she herself squatting beside me, sizing me up. Has the doctor been?
这小姑娘把炉前的小凳子让我坐了，她自己就蹲在我旁边，不住地打量我。

At least some conservatives have been suggesting that we should look north of the border for a model of fiscal down-sizing.
FORBES: Conservatives Suggest we Should Emulate Canada
What we do not see from either ministry are proposals for substantially down-sizing or restructuring the welfare state, the financing of which is the reason for the unsustainable financial gap.
FORBES: The Budget Numbers are In, and They are Ugly
For healthy economic growth rates to return, these zombies need to be allowed to expire (that means bankruptcy for the private-sector zombies, and a massive down-sizing, if not the outright dissolution, of the federal leviathan) so that valuable economic resources can be reallocated to more rational, wealth-producing ventures.
FORBES: ZIRP, Zombies And The Japanization Of The American Economy