cut back

削减； 急忙返回

cut back

verb

1. place restrictions on

e.g. curtail drinking in school

Synonym: restrictcurtailcurb

2. cut down on
make a reduction in

e.g. reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits

Synonym: reducecut downtrimtrim downtrim backcutbring down

3. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

e.g. dress the plants in the garden

Synonym: snipclipcroptrimlopdressprune

4. return in time

e.g. the film cut back to an earlier event in the story

Synonym: flash back

1. 减少;削减;缩减
If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.

e.g. They will be concerned to cut back expenditure on unnecessary items...
他们将会考虑削减不必要的开销。
e.g. The Government has cut back on defence spending...
政府已经削减了国防开支。

Just as large companies are having to cut back, so small businesses are being forced to close.(大公司不得不紧缩，小企业则被迫关闭。)

After bringing forward purchases to beat the VAT rise, consumers are likely to cut back in early 2010.(在提前消费以应对增值税上涨后，消费者可能会在2010年初削减支出。)

Japan's recession has prompted consumers to cut back on buying cars.(日本的经济衰退已促使消费者们削减购车花销。)

Do we need to cut back?(我们需要减少食用么？)

Some are so accustomed to pigging out, they can't cut back.(有些人习惯暴饮暴食了，他们不可能缩减食量。)

Water allotments to farmers were cut back in the drought.(在干旱时期配给农民的水量减少。)

The government has announced plans to cut back on defense spending by 10% next year.(政府宣布了明年削减10%国防开支的计划。)

We had to cut back production.(我们只得减产。)

They've already cut back.(这些人已经缩减了开支。)

"Since then," Toebe said, "she has kept her promise to herself to cut back on her Internet use."(托比说：“从那以后，她一直信守承诺，减少上网时间。”)