reduce
v. 减少,缩小; 使变成; 节食; 使不得不; 使沦为(不好境地); (使)浓缩
If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree.
It reduces the risks of heart disease...
这降低了患心脏病的风险。
Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent...
消费下降了25个百分点。
If someone is reduced to a weaker or inferior state, they become weaker or inferior as a result of something that happens to them.
They were reduced to extreme poverty...
他们陷入极端贫困的状态。
They wanted the army reduced to a police force.
他们想把这支队伍降级为一支警察部队。
If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing.
He was reduced to begging for a living.
他不得不以乞讨为生。
If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form.
All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble...
城里所有的建筑都成了废墟。
Politics has been reduced to class struggle.
政治变成了阶级斗争。
If you reduce liquid when you are cooking, or if it reduces, it is boiled in order to make it less in quantity and thicker.
Boil the liquid in a small saucepan to reduce it by half...
用小炖锅炖,收一半汤汁。
Simmer until mixture reduces.
用小火煮到汤汁收浓。
If you say that someone is living in reduced circumstances, you mean that they do not have as much money as they used to have.
They are the descendants of emperors and kings and are now living in reduced circumstances.
他们是帝王的后代,但是现在境况大不如前了。
If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
Her challenge reduced them to silence.
她的质问让他们哑口无言。
If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
The attentions of the media reduced her to tears.
媒体的关注把她弄哭了。
1. cut down on; make a reduction in;
2. make less complex;
3. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;
4. simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
5. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation;
6. be the essential element;
7. reduce in size; reduce physically;
8. lessen and make more modest;
9. make smaller;
10. to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
11. narrow or limit;
12. put down by force or intimidation;
13. undergo meiosis;
14. reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
15. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
16. be cooked until very little liquid is left;
17. cook until very little liquid is left;
18. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
19. take off weight
decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, dwindle
这些协词的共同含义是"减少,变少"。
reduced circumstances
[委婉表达从富到穷]生活窘迫
reduce someone to the ranks
把军士降为普通士兵
We must carry on the patriotic public health campaign with a great fanfare, reduce disease and improve health conditions.
要大张旗鼓地开展爱国卫生运动, 减少疾病,提高健康水平.
The government must make new policies to reduce unemployment.
政府必须制定减少失业的新政策.
The government will look into how to reduce unemployment.
政府将研究如何降低失业率.
The drug can reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.
这种药能降低发病次数和严重程度.
His plan to reduce the number of workers boomeranged on him.
他想要裁减工人的计划对他起了反作用.