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<p>【句子】Ed's been after me to trim the fat. 【Desperate Housewives S02E09】 </p><br><p>【发音】/edz/ /biːn/ /ˈɑːf.tə/ /ˈæf.tər/ /miː/ /tʊ/ /trɪm/ /ðə/ /fæt/</p><br><p>【发音技巧】been after连读；</p><br><p>【翻译】埃德一直催着我精简冗员。</p><br><p>【适用场合】</p><br><p>今天我们学习一下trim the fat的用法，本来trim有“修剪、整理”这样的含义，这个短语字面的意思是“切掉肥肉”，稍微引申一下，可以理解成“削减开支；优化裁员；精简机构”这样的意思；对应的英文解释是to excise or discard elements that are seen as unnecessary；</p><br><p> </p><br><p>eg: Trim the fat off the meat before cooking it.</p><br><p>烹饪前先把肉上的肥油剔掉。</p><br><p> </p><br><p>eg: The new CEO is trimming the fat by cutting unnecessary travel.</p><br><p>新上任的CEO正在通过削减不必要的差旅来精简开支。</p><br><p> </p><br><p>eg: After the merger, the company had to trim the fat and let go of redundant staff.</p><br><p>在合并之后，公司不得不精简人员，裁掉了冗余的员工。</p><br><p> </p><br><p>eg: We need to trim the fat from our reporting process. It's taking too long.</p><br><p>我们需要优化报告流程，去掉那些繁琐的环节，太耗时了。</p><br><p> </p><br><p>eg: We need to trim the fat from our househo...