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At the time, the company was fighting to survive and was forced to lay off engineers as it slashed costs.

当时，这家公司正奋力存活下去，为了削减成本而被迫裁掉工程师。

I'm trying to lay off rich food for a while to lose some weight.

我想暂时不吃油腻的食物以减轻些体重。

That's why it's important to be be prepared to change jobs, because a lay-off could happen to any of us, often without warning.

这就是为什么提前做好换工作的准备是重要的原因，因为我们每个人都可能在没有警告的情况下被开除。

As if they had no policy at all in human resources, only lay-off talks rolling on all the time.

好像他们在人力资源方面没有任何政策，只会一直开裁员动员会。

Those that did not lay off any lawyers have frozen hiring and squeezed more work out of their staff. So morale is dismal at many firms.

那些没有裁掉任何律师的公司停止了招聘，并想从员工身上榨取更多的劳动，因此很多公司士气低迷。

It is still likely to lay-off thousands of workers but probably far fewer than Fiat would have done if it had won the bidding.

现在仍有可能几千失业人员但可能比菲亚特公司较少工人已经获得工作，如果Magna已经中标。

So that's my first experience getting involved in that and getting up and standing up in front the company and saying we've done is lay off.

那是我第一次体会这种感觉：站在全公司人面前告诉他们我们要裁员了。

Without the loan, she would have had to lay off so many people that such a divorce would have taken three times as long.

如果没有贷款，她会解雇更多的人，以致一个离婚案件要花多出三倍的时间。

The doctor told me to lay off for a week.

医生要我休息一个星期。

Yet his big concern, he said, is for the thousands of Westgate workers he had to lay off.

而他更纠结的是Westgate的几千名员工，他不得不把他们裁掉。

The Czech international is rediscovering the form which made him such a vital cog in the Arsenal machine before his lengthy lay-off.

捷克人正在回到长期缺席之前，使他成为阿森纳阵容不可或缺一部分的状态的路上。

Texas manufacturer JCM Industries told the FT that it might have to lay off workers if the situation escalated.

德克萨斯州制造商JCMIndustries向英国《金融时报》表示，如果这种情况进一步升级，它将不得不进行裁员。

In Hawaii, the state employees' union is fighting a proposal to lay off workers for three Fridays a month over the next two years.

夏威夷州政府雇员工会正在抗议一项提案，即要求雇员在未来两年内每月有3个周五停止工作。

He would have tried it, but his prime minister, who was travelling with him, told the cousins to lay off.

他本可以早些体验这种感觉，但与他同行的总理，告戒他的表兄弟们不要喝。

Good sides will also have forwards of sufficient quality and technique to hold on to the ball, spin and lay off dangerous through balls.

优势一方也会拥有不错的前锋，他们有足够的能力控球在脚，盘球和作出一些危险的球。

They remember the dark days when Apple was struggling to stay alive and had to lay off thousands to cut costs.

他们都记得苹果苦苦挣扎于死亡线、不得不裁掉数以千计员工以削减成本的黑暗时期。

And if he has a strong World Cup he'll be fit, strong and raring to go after a long lay-off last season when he was injured.

如果他健康的话，那他会在世界杯上变得更强壮。在因伤缺席上个赛季后，他变得更加强大以及更加渴望胜利。

It is imperative now, when someone comes to look at the apartment, to run upstairs and ask the pianist to lay off for a while.

现在有人来看房子，必须马上冲上楼去叫那位钢琴家停一会儿。

Hubei and Shandong said companies trying to lay off more than 40 staff would need prior approval from the local authorities.

湖北省和山东省表示，欲裁员40人以上的企业，需事先得到当地政府批准。

He went on attacking her until other passengers arrived and told him to lay off.

他不停地打她，直至其他乘客过来叫他住手。