cut backADVERB➤drastically, severely, significantly急劇/大幅/明顯裁減◇Social work services have been cut back drastically.社會工作機構已被大量裁減。VERB + CUT BACK➤be forced to, have to被迫/不得不減少PREPOSITION➤on在⋯方面減少◇Local authorities have been forced to cut back on expenditure.地方政府被迫減少開支。➤to減少到◇We should cut back to previous levels of spending.我們應該減少到先前的開支水平。