paring

英 [ˈpeərɪŋ]

美 [ˈperɪŋ]

n.  削下的皮; (指甲、水果、蔬菜等的)削去物
v.  削皮; 去皮; 逐步减小(数量或体积); 使缩小; 修剪(指甲等)
pare的现在分词

现在分词：paring　复数：parings　

BNC.48355 / COCA.27197

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 削下的皮；（指甲、水果、蔬菜等的）削去物
  Paringsare thin pieces that have been cut off things such as a fingernails, fruit, or vegetables.
  1. ...nail parings.
     剪掉的指甲
  2. ...vegetable parings.
     剥下的菜叶

英英释义

noun

• (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off
  1. she could peel an apple with a single long paring
• a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
  Synonym:slivershaving

双语例句

• It has sought recently to slow down credit growth by raising bank reserve requirements and paring credit growth targets.
  最近，越南政府已通过提高银行存款准备金率和下调信贷增长目标等方式，努力放缓信贷增长。
• The layer can be used by steel, paring, fibre, or wood.
  层板可选用钢板、木板、橡胶板等板料。
• He was busy paring apples in the kitchen.
  他忙着在厨房里削苹果。
• Paring down items in the kitchen, bathroom and pantry in separate chunks will make an otherwise-daunting task much more approachable.
  减少厨房、浴室及食品储藏室的东西并整理分类，会让本来令人却步的工作变得更加容易着手。
• In campaign speeches, he has spoken in fairly ruthless terms about the need to cut health and social security spending for instance by paring the cost of terminal care and by slashing the prescription drugs bill.
  在竞选演说中，他曾相当坚决地表示，需要削减医疗和社会保障方面的支出比如削减临终关怀的支出，并大幅减少处方药费用。
• Be diversified and disciplined, investing from a position of financial health rather than weakness. This is not the time to ignore paring down your debt, for instance.
  注意分散化投资，自我约束，在财务状况健康时而非疲弱时进行投资；举例来说，现在可不是忽略偿债需要的时候。
• While there was some paring of the initial sharp declines in equity and commodity prices yesterday, as short-selling bans were introduced in Italy and Spain, there is no mistaking the bearish tone.
  虽然随着意大利和西班牙颁布卖空禁令，股市和大宗商品价格最初的急剧下跌在昨日有所缓和，但市场基调无疑是看跌的。
• If you used a paring knife, remove it and push the core through the bottom of the apple with your fingers.
  如果你用的是水果刀，那么移掉它，用你的手指通过苹果底部将核挖出。
• People have also reacted swiftly to the current problems, paying down debt and paring back purchases out of prudence or necessity.
  人们对当前问题也迅速作出了反应，无论是出于谨慎或者必要，他们纷纷偿还债务并减少支出。
• Temporary staffing companies, meanwhile, can seldom reduce their own fixed costs in time and are wary of paring too far for fear of missing the eventual upturn.
  与此同时，临时岗位招聘公司很少能够及时削减自己的固定成本，它们也担心成本削减太多，会错过形势最终好转的机会。