The current owners bought the house for 35, 000 dollars in 1973 and are looking to downsize to a condominium.(這套房子的現房主于1973年花了3.5萬美元買下這處住宅，如今房主希望將其縮小為一套公寓。)

The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers.(公司決定縮小規模，并更加充分地用好余下的工人。)

And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit.(并且隨著企業的分散化和小規模化，信息系統也產生同樣的變化。)

If, as most experts agree, downsizing is here to stay, perhaps the real question is not, "is it ethical to downsize?"(正如大多數專家所認同，如果裁員行動繼續下去，或許真正的問題不在？)

Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.(銷售業績減少很多，所以他們必須縮小規模。)

He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions.(他將縮小三家公司的執行董事會。)

As firms downsize, many employees are being forced to take on lots of extra work.(由于公司裁員，很多雇員都被迫做很多額外的工作。)

There is evidence that firms believe they are behaving rationally whenever they downsize; yet recent research has shown that the actual economic effects of downsizing are often negative for firms.(有證據表明，企業認為，無論何時裁員，他們的行為都是理性的；然而最近的研究表明，裁員對企業的實際經濟影響往往是負面的。)

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right.(許多公司選擇縮小規模，這對于它們或許是正確的。)

We were forced to downsize, but then saw the changing situation as an opportunity, rather than a threat.(我們公司被迫“瘦身”，但后來我們把當時的市場轉變視為一個機會，而不把它視為威脅。)