rescale
rescale — 動詞
- rescalepresent simple I / you / we / they
- rescales3rd person singular
- rescaling-ing form
- rescaledpast simple
1. to redesign or replan something so that it works at a different size, very often
重新調整規模
依新尺度重新規劃，常指縮小
to redesign or replan something so that it works at a different size, very often a smaller one than before
After the funding was cut, Sade had to rescale the whole festival into a one-day event.
經費被刪減後，Sade 只好把整個音樂節重新調整成一天的活動。
rescale + object for shrinking a project
The city council voted to rescale the new park to fit a much tighter budget.
市議會投票決定縮減新公園的規模，以配合更緊縮的預算。
rescale + object after a budget cut
Engineers rescaled the bridge design when the river turned out to be wider than expected.
當發現河面比預期還寬時，工程師重新調整了橋梁的設計。
The map was rescaled so that one centimetre now stood for ten kilometres instead of five.
這張地圖的比例被重新調整，現在一公分代表十公里，而不是五公里。
passive: be rescaled to a new ratio
Emre rescaled his bakery business to serve just the local village after the city store closed.
城裡的店收掉後，Emre 把麵包店的規模縮小到只服務當地的村莊。
- rescale a project
- rescale a design
- rescale an image
- rescale operations
- resize
more about changing physical dimensions of an image or object than replanning a project
- downsize
specifically making smaller, often jobs or a company; rescale can go either direction
- scale back
informal phrasal verb; same idea of reducing the size or scope of a plan
- scale up
to expand something to a larger size or capacity
文法句型
rescale + object
rescale + object + to + new size
用法筆記
Object is usually a plan, design, project, image, or quantity rather than a physical object. The new size is frequently smaller, so the verb often signals cutting back.
常見錯誤
同根字
常見搭配
常用片語
- rescale to fit
- rescale down
介系詞搭配
- rescale to
- rescale into
- rescale for