lay off

常見例句

I know why I should lay off.
我知道為什么我該戒掉。
But when soaring losses at state-owned firms forced the government to lay off about one-third of all state employees between 1996 and 2002, the official unemployment rate rose only slightly.
但在1996到2002年之間，國有企業(yè)的嚴重虧損迫使政府不得不裁掉三分之一的國有員工，而與此同時官方的失業(yè)率僅僅是略微上升。
At a time when school districts are trying to get their budgets approved so they do not have to lay off teachers or cut programs, spending money on tablet computers may seem like an extravagance.
然而當學區(qū)正努力讓他們的預算得以通過，從而不至于必須解雇教師或削減規(guī)劃的時候，在平板電腦上花費金錢或許看起來太奢侈了。

SUD and other critics claim France Telecom used extremely coercive methods to lay off 22,000 workers between 2006 and 2008.
On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.
在你和帕里斯發(fā)生關系后的第三千兩百八十七夜,那個日子是狡猾的潘達洛斯告訴我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸邊，揀傷口上的虱子,疲憊讓我閉上了眼睛。
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He and his wife had to lay off workers, reduce inventory and stay open longer hours just to remain in business.

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He had to lay off dozens of staffers, you know, lower level of staffers.
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Or should we let the private banking system take over and have regulators lay off?
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