minimise

英

美

v.  把…减至最低数量〔程度〕; 对(某事物)作最低估计；极力贬低(某事物)的价值〔重要性〕

现在分词：minimising　过去分词：minimised　第三人称单数：minimises　过去式：minimised　

IELTS

BNC.5827

英英释义

verb

• make small or insignificant
  1. Let's minimize the risk
  Synonym:minimize
• represent as less significant or important
  Synonym:understateminimizedownplay

双语例句

• SKF has released Y-bearing units that are optimise productivity and minimise costs in a diverse variety of industrial applications.
  SKF的已发布的Y-轴承单元是优化生产力和降低成本在一个多样化的各种工业应用。
• Economic stimulus can be justified to minimise excess economic adjustment.
  经济刺激可以使经济过度调整的幅度最小化。
• Then as now, they hoped to minimise the services while maximising the revenues.
  和现在一样，他们希望将服务最少化，收入最大化。
• The oil companies, meanwhile, have done some furtive checking on their own practices, to minimise the risk that they might suffer a similar accident, but they have all insisted that the disaster will make no difference to their plans for offshore exploration and development.
  与此同时，石油公司私下里对自己的活动进行了一些核查，将自己遭遇类似事故的风险最小化。但它们都坚称，这场灾难不会影响其海上勘探和开发计划。
• But I like businesses with small headquarters – they are better placed to minimise bureaucracy and office politics.
  但我喜欢总部规模较小的企业，它们在尽可能地减少官僚体制和办公室政治方面更有优势。
• So we should have QC procedures at each stage to minimise the chance of contamination.
  所以我们生产中的每一阶段都应该有QC措施，把污染的可能性控制在最小范围。
• Second, it would minimise damage to incentives.
  其次，它应将对激励机制的损害降到最低。
• Where appropriate, measures should be taken to minimise the particulate contamination of the end product.
  适当的条件下，要采取措施，减少对终产品的尘埃粒子的污染。
• We must do everything we can to minimise these avoidable tragedies.
  因此，我们必须竭尽所能，设法减少这些本可避免的悲剧发生。
• Some projections minimise distortions in some of these properties at the expense of others.
  一些投影会以牺牲其他方面的属性来使某些属性的变形最小化。