及物动词
1. The poor woman is reduced to begging.
那个可怜的女人已沦为乞丐。
2. Poverty reduced him to begging.
贫穷迫使他行乞。
3. She was reduced to begging.
她被迫乞讨。
4. The fire reduced the paintings to ashes.
大火将这些画作烧成了灰烬。
5. The fire reduced the forest to a few trees.
大火把森林烧得仅剩下几颗树。
订货
A：Your prices seem a little high .
你们的价钱高了一些。
B：We could make them lower for you .
我们可以算你便宜一点。
A：How ?
怎么做呢？
B：If you order in large lots , we‘ll reduce the price .
如果你大量订购，我们可以降价
1. 简化：2.简化(Reduce). 下课以后,尽可能及早将这些论据、概念简明扼要地概括(简化)在回忆栏,即副栏. 3.背诵(Recite). 把主栏遮住,只用回忆栏中的摘记提示,尽量完满地叙述课堂上讲过的内容. 4.思考(Reflect). 将自己的听课随感、意见、经验体会之类的内容,
2. reduce
2. 降低：1991年,惠普公司自愿加入美国EPA计划,决定减少污染和有毒物质的排放量,并提出了业界著名的3R概念:降低(Reduce)、重用(Reuse)和再利用(Recycle). 自1993年5月以来,惠普公司已经禁止在其生产中使用破坏臭氧层的化学物质,
1. 减少；减小；减轻
If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree.
e.g. It reduces the risks of heart disease...
这降低了患心脏病的风险。
e.g. Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent...
消费下降了25个百分点。
2. 使沦为，使陷入（不好的境地）
If someone is reduced to a weaker or inferior state, they become weaker or inferior as a result of something that happens to them.
e.g. They were reduced to extreme poverty...
他们陷入极端贫困的状态。
e.g. 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。
3. 迫使;使不得不（做）；使只得
If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing.
e.g. He was reduced to begging for a living.
他不得不以乞讨为生。
4. 使变成;使简化为
If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form.
e.g. All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble...
城里所有的建筑都成了废墟。
e.g. Politics has been reduced to class struggle.
政治变成了阶级斗争。
5. （烹调中）使变浓稠，收汁
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.
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e.g. Boil the liquid in a small saucepan to reduce it by half...
用小炖锅炖，收一半汤汁。
e.g. Simmer until mixture reduces.
用小火煮到汤汁收浓。
6. 境况变差;生活拮据
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.
e.g. 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。
7. 使…无言
If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
e.g. Her challenge reduced them to silence.
她的质问让他们哑口无言。
8. 使…落泪
If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
e.g. The attentions of the media reduced her to tears.
媒体的关注把她弄哭了。
verb
1. take off weight
Synonym: melt offlose weightslimslenderizethinslim 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
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
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: abridgeforeshortenabbreviateshortencutcontract
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