| 1. | Why don't you boil your speech down ?
为什么不把你的演说词缩减些呢？ |
| 2. | We have to cut corners .
我们不得不缩减开支。 |
| 3. | After the business failed, father had to pull in his horns .
经营失败后，父亲就得缩减开支。 |
| 4. | They would not be forced to cut back their purchase of salt .
他们不会被迫缩减对食盐的购买。 |
| 5. | We can only retrieve the situation by reducing our expenses .
我们只有缩减开支才能扭转这种状况。 |
| 6. | This would reduce the demand for education beyond literacy .
这将缩减超出读写要求之外的教育需求。 |
| 7. | Meanwhile, groundnut sales have shrunk to almost nothing .
同时，花生的销售量已缩减到几乎没有了。 |
| 8. | The united states government has curtailed the export of this crop .
美国政府已经缩减了这种作物的出口。 |
| 9. | Whispers around downtown predict major cutbacks soon at forum east .
商业界人士私下预料，东城新区工程不久将大幅度缩减。 |
| 10. | The new tariffs on imports could make exports contract in several ways .
对进口商品征收新关税从几方面来讲会使出口缩减。 |
