美 [skeɪl daʊn]
缩小规模：在保持比例的同时减小某物的尺寸或减少某个过程的成本或在某物上的花费。
scale down // [ scaling scaled scales ]
动词词组 If you scale down something, you make it smaller in size, amount, or extent than it used to be. 缩小; 缩减
One factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
一家工厂已不得不把工人总数从600裁减到仅剩6人。
reduce proportionally
make smaller
同义词： reduce
按比例缩小
按比例缩小
... minnown. 小鱼 scale down 按比例缩小 churn out 艰苦做出（尤指不注重质量的），粗制滥造 ...
... recoup：获得补偿 scale down：按比例减少 rollout：首次展示 ...
... scale n. 鳞,刻度,衡量,数值范围; v. 依比例决定,攀登 scale down 缩减 scan n. 扫描,押韵,细查; v. 扫描,详细调查,分析韵律 ...
One factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
一家工厂已不得不把工人总数从600裁减到仅剩6人。
Scale Down Expectations.
降低期望值。
In some cases, these organizations can scale down while providing access to the same data.
有些情况下，这些组织在访问相同数据时可以缩小规模。
Earlier Friday, BP's incoming CEO Bob Dudley, said it is time to scale down the vast operation to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he stressed his company's commitment to fully restore the environment.
VOA : standard.2010.07.31
Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.
无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子
聆听音乐课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Melodies that are just running up and down a scale-- neighboring tones.
级进旋律是指在整个音阶的,相邻音符上跑动的旋律
聆听音乐课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
The author acknowledges that after nine years of large-scale U.S.military involvement in the Middle East, and with the nation's economic difficulties bearing down on them, many Americans feel the temptation to pull the U.S.strong horse out of the region.
VOA : standard.2010.03.18
They scale down and simplify Web information so that one can, for instance, view the CNNhome page.
Enterprises may scale down production, reduce investments, or turn down opportunities to innovate.
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The simplest option is to scale down the existing standard of a fuselage with two fixed wings and a tail.