lay off

常见例句

I know why I should lay off.
我知道为什么我该戒掉。
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年之间，国有企业的严重亏损迫使政府不得不裁掉三分之一的国有员工，而与此同时官方的失业率仅仅是略微上升。
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.
然而当学区正努力让他们的预算得以通过，从而不至于必须解雇教师或削减规划的时候，在平板电脑上花费金钱或许看起来太奢侈了。

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.
在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。
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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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