pare
柯林斯詞典
1. V-T When you pare something, or pare part of it off or away, you cut off its skin or its outer layer. 削皮; 去掉…外層
Pare the brown skin from the meat with a very sharp knife. 用一把非常鋒利的刀削掉肉上褐色的皮。
He took out a slab of cheese, pared off a slice and ate it hastily. 他拿出厚厚的一塊嬭酪，切下一片急匆匆地喫了。
2. V-T If you pare something down or back, or if you pare it, you reduce it. 削減
The governor's campaign fund could be pared down to $500. 州長(zhǎng)競(jìng)選活動(dòng)基金可能會(huì)被削減到$500。
The luxury tax won't really do much to pare down the budget deficit. 奢侈品稅不能真的在削減預(yù)算赤字上起到多大作用。
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pare /p??/ (paring,pared,pares)
劍橋詞典
- to cut away the outer layer from something, especially a fruit or a vegetable
削（尤指水果或蔬菜的）皮
He was busy paring apples in the kitchen . 他正忙著在廚房裡削蘋果。
Pare off any bits of the carrots that don't look very nice . 把衚蘿蔔看上去不太好的地方都削掉。
to reduce something, especially by a large amount
（尤指大量地）削減，減少
The three-hour play has been pared (down/back) to two hours . 這出三個(gè)小時(shí)的戯被縮短成了兩小時(shí)。