fatten, fatten up, -laden, manipulate, slim dowm, slimming, debt-laden. The health concerns of King Charles and, now, the Princess of Wales are stretching an already slimmed down monarchy.

Catherine’s Cancer Diagnosis Puts U.K. Royals on Even More Uncertain Terrain

The health concerns of King Charles and, now, the Princess of Wales are stretching an already slimmed down monarchy.

Hong Kong's exposure to debt-laden developer China Evergrande Group is "very minimal" at 0.05%, or HK$14 billion ($1.79 billion), of banking assets, South China Morning Post reported on Sunday, citing the city's finance minister.




Pork prices rose nearly 47% last month in China due to the devastating effects of African swine fever.
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Chinese Consumer Prices Fattened by Precious Pork



 Next iPhone Is Slimming Down

The screen on Apple's next iPhone model integrates touch sensors into the LCD, making the whole screen thinner and improving the display quality.

The app-laden version of Bjork's new release, "Biophilia," lets listeners manipulate the music.


Switching on Smart TV
TV makers are betting that following the app-laden path of smartphones and tablet computers will fatten up what have been ultraslim profit margins, after 3-D TV failed to excite consumers last year.


laden
(lād'n)
v.
A past participle of lade.

adj.

1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those thousands of miles of western sea" (Hilaire Belloc).
2. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.

fatten


(flăt'n)

v., -tened, -ten·ing, -tens. v.tr.
To make flat or flatter.
To knock down; lay low: The boxer was flattened with one punch.

v.intr.

To become flat or flatter.

flattener flat'ten·er n.


書的封面上印着一句頗有誘惑力的話，“減輕體重、保持健康、延年益壽”，這種最新減重法的前提是間歇性禁食（英國人通常把“節食減肥”[dieting] 稱作“纖體”[slimming]），也就是這裡所謂的5:2節食方案，即在五天時間裡，你可以隨意吃喝，然後用兩天的禁食來消耗這些能量。

slim[slim]

• 発音記号[slím][形]（〜・mer, 〜・mest）

1 〈人・体格などが〉細い, ほっそりした, やせた. ▼よい意味で用いる. ⇒SLENDER[類語]

a slim waist ［figure］
ほっそりした腰［体つき］.

2 〈通路などが〉狭い, 細い

a slim passage between the reefs
さんご礁の間の狭い水路.

3 〈かばん・本などが〉薄い.

4 不十分な, 乏しい, 少ない；〈可能性などが〉わずかな；〈収入などが〉少ない

a slim possibility of escape
逃亡のわずかな可能性

a slim triumph
辛勝

the slim literature on the topic
このテーマに関する乏しい文献

between slim and none
無きに等しい.

5 ずるい

You slim rascal！
((親愛の情をこめて))ずるいやつ.

━━[動]（〜med, 〜・ming）(他)

1 …を（減食などをして）やせさせる((down))；細くする.

2 …規模を縮小する, …を削減する((down)).

━━(自)やせる((down))；細くなる.

slim・ly

[副]

slim・ness

[名]

slim something down

phrasal verb with slim 

 

to reduce the size of something

減少，縮小

It is not our intention to slim down the workforce.裁減員工並不是我們的本意。