lay off

US 
UK 
  • na.辞退；停止；暂停
  • Web解雇；下岗；裁员
Simple Present：lays off  Present Participle：laying off  Past Tense：laid off  

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Web Definition

na.
1.
解雇,炒鱿鱼,辞退
2.
停止;暂停

Sample Sentence

Definition:
AllAll,辞退辞退,停止停止,暂停暂停,解雇解雇,下岗下岗,裁员裁员
Category:AllAll,OralOral,WrittenWritten,TitleTitle,TechnicalTechnical
Source:AllAll,DictionaryDictionary,WebWeb
Difficulty:AllAll,EasyEasy,MiddleMiddle,HardHard
1.
At the time, the company was fighting to survive and was forced to lay off engineers as it slashed costs.
当时，这家公司正奋力存活下去，为了削减成本而被迫裁掉工程师。
dāng shí , zhè jiā gōng sī zhèng fèn lì cún huó xià qù , wèi le xuē jiǎn chéng běn ér bèi pò cái diào gōng chéng shī 。
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2.
That's why it's important to be be prepared to change jobs, because a lay-off could happen to any of us, often without warning.
这就是为什么提前做好换工作的准备是重要的原因，因为我们每个人都可能在没有警告的情况下被开除。
zhè jiù shì wèi shén me tí qián zuò hǎo huàn gōng zuò de zhǔn bèi shì zhòng yào de yuán yīn , yīn wèi wǒ men měi gè rén dōu kě néng zài méi yǒu jǐng gào de qíng kuàng xià bèi kāi chú 。
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3.
As if they had no policy at all in human resources, only lay-off talks rolling on all the time.
好像他们在人力资源方面没有任何政策，只会一直开裁员动员会。
hǎo xiàng tā men zài rén lì zī yuán fāng miàn méi yǒu rèn hé zhèng cè , zhǐ huì yì zhí kāi cái yuán dòng yuán huì 。
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4.
Those that did not lay off any lawyers have frozen hiring and squeezed more work out of their staff. So morale is dismal at many firms.
那些没有裁掉任何律师的公司停止了招聘，并想从员工身上榨取更多的劳动，因此很多公司士气低迷。
nà xiē méi yǒu cái diào rèn hé lǜ shī de gōng sī tíng zhǐ le zhāo pìn , bìng xiǎng cóng yuán gōng shēn shàng zhà qǔ gèng duō de láo dòng , yīn cǐ hěn duō gōng sī shì qì dī mí 。
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5.
It is still likely to lay-off thousands of workers but probably far fewer than Fiat would have done if it had won the bidding.
现在仍有可能几千失业人员但可能比菲亚特公司较少工人已经获得工作，如果Magna已经中标。
xiàn zài réng yǒu kě néng jǐ qiān shī yè rén yuán dàn kě néng bǐ fēi yà tè gōng sī jiào shǎo gōng rén yǐ jīng huò de gōng zuò , rú guǒ Magna yǐ jīng zhòng biāo 。
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6.
So that's my first experience getting involved in that and getting up and standing up in front the company and saying we've done is lay off.
那是我第一次体会这种感觉：站在全公司人面前告诉他们我们要裁员了。
nà shì wǒ dì yī cì tǐ huì zhè zhǒng gǎn jué : zhàn zài quán gōng sī rén miàn qián gào su tā men wǒ men yào cái yuán le 。
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7.
Without the loan, she would have had to lay off so many people that such a divorce would have taken three times as long.
如果没有贷款，她会解雇更多的人，以致一个离婚案件要花多出三倍的时间。
rú guǒ méi yǒu dài kuǎn , tā huì jiě gù gèng duō de rén , yǐ zhì yī gè lí hūn àn jiàn yào huā duō chū sān bèi de shí jiān 。
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8.
The doctor told me to lay off for a week.
医生要我休息一个星期。
yī shēng yào wǒ xiū xi yī gè xīng qī 。
9.
The Czech international is rediscovering the form which made him such a vital cog in the Arsenal machine before his lengthy lay-off.
捷克人正在回到长期缺席之前，使他成为阿森纳阵容不可或缺一部分的状态的路上。
jié kè rén zhèng zài huí dào cháng qī quē xí zhī qián , shǐ tā chéng wéi ā sēn nà zhèn róng bù kě huò quē yí bù fen de zhuàng tài de lù shang 。
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10.
Texas manufacturer JCM Industries told the FT that it might have to lay off workers if the situation escalated.
德克萨斯州制造商JCMIndustries向英国《金融时报》表示，如果这种情况进一步升级，它将不得不进行裁员。
dé kè sà sī zhōu zhì zào shāng JCMIndustries xiàng yīng guó 《 jīn róng shí bào 》 biǎo shì , rú guǒ zhè zhǒng qíng kuàng jìn yí bù shēng jí , tā jiāng bù dé bù jìn xíng cái yuán 。
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