paring

英 [ˈpeərɪŋ]

美 [ˈperɪŋ]

n.  削下的皮; (指甲、水果、蔬菜等的)削去物
v.  削皮; 去皮; 逐步减小(数量或体积); 使缩小; 修剪(指甲等)
pare的现在分词

现在分词：paring　复数：parings　

BNC.48355 / COCA.27197

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 削下的皮；（指甲、水果、蔬菜等的）削去物
  Paringsare thin pieces that have been cut off things such as a fingernails, fruit, or vegetables.
  1. ...nail parings.
     剪掉的指甲
  2. ...vegetable parings.
     剥下的菜叶

英英释义

noun

• (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off
  1. she could peel an apple with a single long paring
• a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
  Synonym:slivershaving

双语例句

• Tell them you'll need a sharp paring knife and a bottle of vodka.
  告诉他们你需要一把锋利的刀和一瓶伏特加。
• The father was so cheese paring with his son's pocket money that the boy hadn't enough money to buy a table tennis bat.
  这位父亲给孩子的零用钱少得可怜，孩子想买个乒乓球拍都没有足够的钱。
• While there was some paring of the initial sharp declines in equity and commodity prices yesterday, as short-selling bans were introduced in Italy and Spain, there is no mistaking the bearish tone.
  虽然随着意大利和西班牙颁布卖空禁令，股市和大宗商品价格最初的急剧下跌在昨日有所缓和，但市场基调无疑是看跌的。
• He was busy paring apples in the kitchen.
  他忙着在厨房里削苹果。
• A small sharp knife used in paring fruits or vegetables. I tapered the end of the fence post with an ax.
  用来削水果或蔬菜的皮的小尖刀。我用斧头将篱笆桩顶端削尖。
• In campaign speeches, he has spoken in fairly ruthless terms about the need to cut health and social security spending for instance by paring the cost of terminal care and by slashing the prescription drugs bill.
  在竞选演说中，他曾相当坚决地表示，需要削减医疗和社会保障方面的支出比如削减临终关怀的支出，并大幅减少处方药费用。
• Temporary staffing companies, meanwhile, can seldom reduce their own fixed costs in time and are wary of paring too far for fear of missing the eventual upturn.
  与此同时，临时岗位招聘公司很少能够及时削减自己的固定成本，它们也担心成本削减太多，会错过形势最终好转的机会。
• He is sitting in the sofa. paring his nails down.
  他坐在沙发上修剪指甲。
• The GSEs will increase their existing portfolios until 2010, when they hope to start paring them back.
  两家GSE将增加现有资产组合，直至2010年&他们希望到那时开始剥离这些资产。
• In the paring down of genetic material and the production of several slave races of humans, the information for the unconscious was lost.
  在基因材料剥落下跌和人类几个奴隶族的制造中，关于无意识的信息被丢失。