Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.

As business is bad these days, we have to retrench.

由于最近生意不景气, 我们不得不紧缩开支.

Inflation has forced us to retrench.

因通货膨胀我们不得不紧缩开支.

It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply.

它不是保守消极的政策, 更不是收缩货币供应.

[不可数名词, 可数名词]a period of retrenchment

开支紧缩时期

The mess of Wall Street means the families have to retrench.

华尔街的动荡对很多家庭来说意味着新一轮的勒紧腰带过日子.

The company had to retrench.

该公司必须节省开支.

They must retrench their expenditure for the purpose of making up the deficit.

为了弥补赤字,他们必须压缩开支.

Explain: for the sake of retrench disk spcae.

说明: 为节省磁盘空间、减少记录量,键盘及鼠标动作即开始监视,停止动作一段时间后停止监视. (请注意观看电影等特殊情况)

They retrenched by eliminating half of the workers.

他们藉剔除一半的工作人员来节约开支.

But pretty soon the theory of fiscal retrenchment will be translated into real political pain.

但财政紧缩的理论,将很快转化为实实在在的政治阵痛.

First, he is determined to grow again after a period of retrenchment.

首先,在经历了一段时间的业务收缩后, 他决定再次增长.

US recessions are driven by the retrenchment of the corporate sector in response to shocks.

美国衰退的推动因素是企业部门为应对冲击而缩减成本.

Men aged 40 and above are most vulnerable because they are a favourite target for retrenchment.

　　40多的男性雇员的脆弱性,主要表现在3个“最”:最容易被裁、最难找工作,以及经济负担最大.

The company is in for a period of retrenchment.

公司目前正值削减开支阶段.

...a need for industrial retrenchment and restructuring.

工业紧缩开支和改组的需要

Retrenchment in the colleges could force thousands of students back into the unemployment lines.

学院若缩减经费,数千名学生将被迫回到失业工人的行列.

That means massive private retrenchment, with corporations particularly frugal at the moment.

这意味着私人部门大规模缩减开支, 而企业眼下尤为节俭.

Starbucks has searched for new areas of growth following a deep retrenchment in the U.

星巴克去年在美国大幅收缩业务后,已在寻找新的业务增长区域.

Now, businesses are catching up with a retrenchment of their own.

现在, 商业企业也同样在压缩开支.

Retrenchment is inevitable and it is unlikely to be gradual or well planned.

节流是必然的,但是它不可能稳步规划,按部就班.