2019年3月12日 星期二

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Google plans to offer a service that will sell video ads both on television and YouTube, as it struggles to lure bigger advertisers. It also plans to pare 200 jobs.

Top Taiwan LCD makers pare back forced unpaid leave
Reuters - USA
2 Taiwan LCD maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (3009.TW) has pared back its policy of forcing workers to take unpaid leave, after receiving new orders from ...

強制的無薪假forced unpaid leave

American Pares Service To LaGuardia, 4 Cities
American Airlines, the largest U.S. airline, announced yesterday a deep round of service cuts that includes shrinking the number of flights from New York's LaGuardia airport and eliminating service to four smaller U.S. cities.
(By Sholnn Freeman, The Washington Post)


Huawei Pares Bidders List for Unit
Huawei shortlisted five private-equity bidders for the Chinese telecom-gear maker's mobile-devices division, valued at more than $4 billion.



pare 
verb [T often + adverb or preposition]
1 to cut away the outer layer from something, especially a fruit or a vegetable:
He was busy paring apples in the kitchen.
Pare off any bits of the carrots that don't look very nice.

2 to reduce something, especially by a large amount:
The three-hour play has been pared (down) to two hours.

paring
noun [C usually plural]
a thin piece that has been cut away from something:
We feed most of our vegetable parings to the guinea pigs.

pare sth (down) to the bone
to reduce something to a level at which only what is necessary is left




pre·pare
(prĭ-pâr') pronunciation

v., -pared, -par·ing, -pares. v.tr.
  1. To make ready beforehand for a specific purpose, as for an event or occasion: The teacher prepared the students for the exams.
  2. To put together or make by combining various elements or ingredients; manufacture or compound: prepared a meal 讀楊周翰先生翻譯的 "埃涅阿斯紀"(1983) 用到整治 再查 The Aeneid of Virgil translated by John Dreden(1697) ; prepared the lecture.
  3. To fit out; equip: prepared the ship for an arctic expedition.
  4. Music. To lead up to and soften (a dissonance or its impact) by means of preparation.
v.intr.
  1. To make things or oneself ready.
  2. To study or complete a course of study at a preparatory school.
[Middle English preparen, from Old French preparer, from Latin praeparāre : prae-, pre- + parāre, prepare, equip.]
preparedly pre·par'ed·ly (-pâr'ĭd-lē) adv.
preparer pre·par'er n.
Dictionary definition of prepare
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

v. - 準備する, 調製する, 支度を整えさせる, 教えて準備させる, 覚悟を決めさせる, 覚悟する, 覚悟させる

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