The current owners bought the house for 35, 000 dollars in 1973 and are looking to downsize to a condominium.(这套房子的现房主于1973年花了3.5万美元买下这处住宅，如今房主希望将其缩小为一套公寓。)
The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers.(公司决定缩小规模，并更加充分地用好余下的工人。)
And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit.(并且随着企业的分散化和小规模化，信息系统也产生同样的变化。)
If, as most experts agree, downsizing is here to stay, perhaps the real question is not, "is it ethical to downsize?"(正如大多数专家所认同，如果裁员行动继续下去，或许真正的问题不在？)
Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.(销售业绩减少很多，所以他们必须缩小规模。)
He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions.(他将缩小三家公司的执行董事会。)
As firms downsize, many employees are being forced to take on lots of extra work.(由于公司裁员，很多雇员都被迫做很多额外的工作。)
There is evidence that firms believe they are behaving rationally whenever they downsize; yet recent research has shown that the actual economic effects of downsizing are often negative for firms.(有证据表明，企业认为，无论何时裁员，他们的行为都是理性的；然而最近的研究表明，裁员对企业的实际经济影响往往是负面的。)
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right.(许多公司选择缩小规模，这对于它们或许是正确的。)
We were forced to downsize, but then saw the changing situation as an opportunity, rather than a threat.(我们公司被迫“瘦身”，但后来我们把当时的市场转变视为一个机会，而不把它视为威胁。)
