单词：reduce
vi. 减少, 减肥, 缩小
[计] 缩小
v. make less complex
v. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
v. simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
考试类型：[高考/四级/六级/考研/托福]
reduce的用法和样例：
例句
- The new government's prime task is to reduce the level of inflation.新政府的主要任务是减低通货膨胀的水平。
- We need to reduce our dependence on oil as a source of energy.在能源方面,我们需减少对石油的依赖。
- We must gradually reduce the wage gap.我们要逐步缩小工资差距。
- They were reduced to begging.他们沦落到得要饭。
- You need to reduce the equation to its simplest form.你需要将这个方程式化为最简单形式。
- Electrons from water involved in noncyclic photophosphorylation are used to reduce the added substance.非循环光合磷酸化中由水提供的电子被用来还原产物。
- In the case of very small strains, these derived bounds reduce known results for linear cases.在微小变形下，所导出的界限还原成已知的线性情况下的相应结果。
常见句型
- I'm reducing.我正在节食。
- She has been reducing for the last few weeks.最近几个星期她一直在节食。
- No sugar, thank you —I'm trying to reduce.对不起,我不吃糖,我在减肥。
- They are trying a new diet in order to reduce.他们为了减肥,正试用一种新食谱。
- I must reduce to get into that fine dress.要想穿上那件好衣服,我就得减肥。
- Some fat people try to reduce their weight.有些肥胖人设法减肥。
- We shall have to reduce the price if we want this buyer to take the house off our hands.若我们想要让买主从我们的手里买下这房子,就必须降低售价。
- The new working method further reduced production costs.新的操作方法进一步降低了生产成本。
- What the factory should do now is to try to reduce the production cost.该厂现在应做的就是设法降低生产成本。
- The government has taken measures to reduce public expenditure.政府已经采取措施来削减公共开支。
- He decided to reduce family expenses.他决定减缩家庭开支。
- The driver reduced the driving speed.司机减低了车速。
- Lubrication reduces noise and wear.润滑作用能减少噪音和磨损。
- They used a stolen car to reduce the risk of detection.他们使用了一辆偷来的汽车以减少被发现的风险。
- The army reduced the fort by a sudden attack.这支军队突然袭击攻下了那个堡垒。
- A doctor can reduce a fracture or dislocation.医生能使骨折或脱臼复位。
- The rising sun quickly reduced the fog.升起的太阳很快驱散了晨雾。 1
- I bought this shirt because it was reduced.我买这件衬衫是因为它减价了。
- If the pressure is not reduced, the cylinder is likely to fracture.如果不降低压力,汽缸就可能破裂。
- Following the cutting down of personnel, the cost of production was correspondingly reduced.随着人员的裁减,生产成本也相应降低了。
- If the tax is reduced, that 5% will come off the price of the goods.如果税收削减的话,那个5%将从货价中扣除。
- Hunger reduced him to steal.饥饿使他不得不行窃。
- In those days poverty reduced many people to beg in the street.在旧社会,贫穷使许多人不得不在街上乞讨。
- They went to the cinema at a reduced fare.他们以优惠票价看了一场电影。
- She could not face up to the prospect of living in reduced circumstances.她没有勇气面对每况愈下的生活前景。
- The country's present difficulties arise from the reduced value of its money.该国目前的困难起因于其货币的贬值。
- The people must reconcile themselves to a reduced standard of living.人们必须使自己习惯于生活水平的下降。
常用短语
- 用…方法还原 remove oxygen from or add hydrogen or electrons to (a compound) with sth
- 使…低于 make (sth such as a price) less than (a former level)reduce sth from sth
I bought this shirt because it was considerably reduced from its original price.
我买这件上衣是因为它远远低于它的原价。
- 使…方面降低 bring (sth/sb) down with regard to (a level, price, etc.)reduce sb/sth in sth
He would not reduce it in price.
他不愿降低它的价格。
They have decided to reduce him in post.
他们已经决定降他的职。
Most of the daily necessities have been greatly reduced in price.
大部分日用品已大降价。
He was reduced in rank.
他被降级了。
- 折合; 分解成 change; separate sth such as a mixture or combination into its partsreduce sb/sth to sth/v-ing
They reduced the expenses to 60 per cent.
他们将开支压缩到60%。
We should reduce the unproductive expenditure to a minimum.
我们应该把非生产性开支压缩到最低限度。
The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.
这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟。
A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes.1947
年的一场大火,使90%的房屋化为灰烬。
Even when we reduce the salt to a fine powder, it still tastes salt.
即使把食盐捣成粉末,它还是有咸味的。
A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.
连续歉收使得这个小农场主陷入了贫困境地。
Anxiety about the fate of his family reduced him to a nervous wreck.
对家人命运的担忧使他精神崩溃。
His income has been reduced to half its amount .
他的收入减少了一半。
The operation must be carefully planned so that the loss of blood would be reduced to a minimum.
这次手术要周密计划,要把失血降到最低限度。
Your speed must be reduced to the city speed as soon as you cross the border.
你一进市区车速就得减到市区的规定速度。
He is reduced almost to a skeleton.
他瘦得几乎变成了一个骨头架子。
The chalk was reduced to powder.
粉笔被磨成粉末。
The house was reduced to ashes.
那房子被烧成了灰烬。
I bought the coat as it was reduced to only ￡30.
我买这件上衣因为它减价到只卖30英镑。
After the Opium War of 1840,China was gradually reduced to a semicolonial and semi￣feudal society.1840
年鸦片战争后,中国逐渐沦为一个半殖民地半封建的社会。
Its people were thus reduced to slavery.
就这样它的人民都沦为奴隶了。
In the old society he was finally reduced to begging.
在旧社会,他最后被逼得讨饭。
During the famine, many people were reduced to eating grass and leaves.
许多人在饥荒时被迫吃青草啃树叶充饥。
The captain was reduced to the ranks.
上尉被降为士兵。
reduce sth/wh-clause to sthI think we can reduce his rather lengthy statement to one or two essential points.
我认为可以把他冗长的演说归纳为一两个要点。
This kind of analysis reduces the problem to its simplest form.
这种分析把这个问题概括成最简单的形式。
We can reduce what he said to three simple facts.
我们可以把他讲的内容归纳为三件事。
His life's work can be reduced to a search for truth.
他的毕生事业可以说就是探求真理。
Boil all the ingredients together till they are reduced to half the quantity.
将所有配料放在一起熬,使它们浓缩成一半。
reduce sth to sthTo reduce pounds to pence you multiply by a hundred.
把英镑折合成便士,你只需乘上100。
Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab.
在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。
Water can be reduced to oxygen and hydrogen by electrolysis.
用电解法可以把水分解为氧和氢。
词汇搭配
- reduce a person to reason使人服理
- reduce the city to a shambles使城市变成瓦砾
- reduce the loss of blood to a minimum把失血减少到最低量
- reduce the passage to half the number of words把这段字数减少到一半
- reduce the size缩小体积
- reduce easily容易征服
- reduce gradually逐步缩小
- reduce greatly大大减少
- reduce markedly明显地减少
- reduce materially大为减少
- reduce necessarily必要地减少
- reduce sharply锐减
- reduce sth from...to把某物从…降至…
- reduce in在…方面减少,在…方面降低
- reduce in price削价
- reduce oneself into陷入
- reduce to使变成…,使陷入
- reduce to despair陷入绝望
- reduce to slavery沦为奴隶
经典引文
Potatoes..cooked so long that they have been reduced to a watery flour.
出自：F. King
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