In the late 1990s, a lot of the military bands were being downsized.

20世纪90年代末，许多军乐队都在裁员。

Who cares? It's time to downsize, minimize my carbon footprint.

谁在乎啊? 我是时候过过低碳生活了。

So, we really had to downsize!

所以我们必须要减小空间！

With fewer journalism students at universities and media companies downsizing or shuddering.

随着大学和媒体公司新闻系学生的减少，这些学校和企业不得不缩减体量。

All right. So how much downsizing are we up for? Townhouse? Condo?

好吧，那我们要降级到什么程度？住排房？还是公寓？

Potato crisps, for example, have continued to downsize amid shrinkflation, says Dworsky.

德沃斯基说，以薯片为例，在缩水式通胀的情况下，薯片的尺寸不断缩小。

And if we get this, they might not have to downsize our branch.

如果能签下这笔订单，我们分部或许就不用减员了。

And it's from the world of business that the word 'downsize' originated.

downsize这个单词正是从商业领域中产生的。

'Given current sales, we're going to have to downsize by thirty percent.'

鉴于眼下的销售量，我们将裁减3%的员工。

The word we are going to focus on today is the verb to downsize.

今天我们要关注的单词是动词精简。