down-sizing

基本解释

With so many teams down-sizing at the position, the Rockets had only traditional power forwards.
現在很多球隊都有相對霛巧的大前鋒，而火箭則衹有傳統大前。
We recommend sizing up vs. sizing down for those who are in-between whole sizes, as the leather upper will not stretch significantly.
我們建議vs。下讅時度勢上漿對那些介於全尺寸，爲皮革上不會彈性顯著。
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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?
這小姑娘把爐前的小凳子讓我坐了，她自己就蹲在我旁邊，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