reduce的意思

基本释义

• v 减少；减低；缩小

  to make something smaller or less in size, amount, or price

例句

1. The governor announced a new plan to reduce crime.

   州长宣布了一项降低犯罪率的新计划。

2. The helmet law should reduce injuries in motorcycle accidents.

   头盔法的实施应该能减少摩托车事故的受伤率。

3. Small businesses will need to reduce costs in order to survive.

   小企业要想生存必须削减成本。

短语

• reduce pollution 降低污染
• reduce weight 整形美容减肥
• reduce waste 减少浪费
• reduce by 减少了

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英英释义

verb 1. take off weight Synonym: melt, offlose, weights, li, ms, lender, i, down 2. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture e.g. cut bourbon Synonym: dilutethinthin outcut 3. narrow or limit e.g. reduce the influx of foreigners Synonym: tighten 4. cook until very little liquid is left e.g. The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time Synonym: boil downconcentrate 5. be cooked until very little liquid is left e.g. The sauce should reduce to one cup Synonym: boil downdecoctconcentrate 6. be the essential element e.g. The proposal boils down to a compromise Synonym: come downboil down 7. 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 Synonym: deoxidizedeoxidise 8. make smaller e.g. reduce an image Synonym: scale down 9. reduce in size reduce physically e.g. Hot water will shrink the sweater Can you shrink this image? Synonym: shrink 10. make less complex e.g. reduce a problem to a single question 11. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements e.g. The manuscript must be shortened Synonym: abridge, fore, shorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract 12. cut down on make a reduction in e.g. reduce your daily fat intake The employer wants to cut back health benefits Synonym: cut downcut backtrimtrim downtrim backcutbring down 13. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it 14. reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site 15. undergo meiosis e.g. The cells reduce 16. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation e.g. She reduced her niece to a servant 17. simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another 18. lessen and make more modest e.g. reduce one's standard of living 19. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition e.g. He reduced the population to slavery 20. put down by force or intimidation e.g. The government quashes any attempt of an uprising China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land Synonym: repressquashkeep downsubduesubjugate

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