英 [ˌkʌt ˈdaʊn] 美 [ˌkʌt ˈdaʊn]
砍倒：将树木或其他物体砍倒。
减少：减少数量或程度。
cut down // [ cutting cuts ]
动词词组 If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it. 减少
He cut down on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet.
他少喝咖啡，少抽烟，饮食均衡。
Car owners were asked to cut down travel.
车主们被要求减少出行。
动词词组 If you cut down a tree, you cut through its trunk so that it falls to the ground. 砍倒
A vandal with a chainsaw cut down a tree.
一个蓄意破坏公物者用链锯锯倒了一棵树。
cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
同义词： slash
cause to come or go down
同义词： down / knock down / push down / pull down
intercept (a player)
同义词： cut out
cut with a blade or mower
同义词： mow
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
同义词： fell / drop / strike down
削减-引用次数：15
参考来源中国汞污染的现状及防治对策
... cross out 删除；划失踪 cut down 削减；削减；砍伐 cut off 切断；截止；间断供给(疾病等)使(人)衰亡；叫(人)杜口无言 ...
... count on依靠，指望 cut down砍倒；削减；缩短 cut in打断，插嘴；（汽车）超车抢挡 ...
... cut back削减，缩减；急忙返回 cut down削减，减少；杀死，砍倒 cut in超车抢挡；插嘴，打断 ...
... MBA英语常考的各类短语及习惯搭配 cut down 削减，降低 cut in (汽车)抢道；插嘴，打断 ...
削减；砍倒；杀死；删节；胜过
You need to cut down on starches.
你有必要少吃些含淀粉的东西。
He was cut down by an assassin's bullet.
他被刺客的子弹击中身亡。
Car owners were asked to cut down travel.
车主们被要求减少出行。
About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.
VOA : special.2010.04.06
When we're doing something that is interactive, we have to cut down on the detail of what we're doing because we can't support that in real time, but nonetheless there're lots of things we can do interactively.
当我们在做一些,互动性的项目时，我们需要减少,正在做的细节,因为在实际时间里,我们并没有足够时间支持它，但是还有很多其他东西,可以做得具有互动性。
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They definitely cut down on foreign students.
他们一定会减少外国学生的名额。
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For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.
VOA : special.2009.07.20
Paul Bunyan was a hero of North America's lumberjacks, the workers who cut down trees.
VOA : special.2011.05.07
The biotech is actually restricting Avastin sales now to cut down on unapproved use.
The plans are designed to cut down on excessive drinking and improve people's health.
The pool of over 300 eligible jurors was cut down due to hardship reasons.
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