reduce

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词形变化: reducible reducibly reducer reduced reduced reducing reduces

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例句用法 短语词组 近反义词 海词讲解 英英解释

1.

The windows were tinted to reduce the glare.

窗户上涂上了浅色以减少强光。

2.

The manager hasn't worked out a suitable action to reduce the domino effect.

经理还没有想出一个适当的举措来减少多米诺效应。

3.

The government will be looking to reduce inflation by a further two per cent this year.

政府力求今年把通货膨胀率再减低百分之二。

4.

Taking extra vitamins may reduce your liability to colds.

多吃一些维生素会减少你得感冒的可能性。

5.

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。

6.

They were reduced to begging or starving.

他们穷得不行乞便挨饿。

7.

He is trying to reduce the family's expenses.

他正尽力减少家庭开支。

8.

He is reduced almost to a skeleton.

他瘦得几乎变成了一个骨头架子。

【近义词】

【反义词】

  • blow up v.爆炸,充气 gain n.获得,收益;v.获得...
  • increase v.增加,提高;n.增加...

【词源解说】

14世纪末进入英语,直接源自古法语的reducer;最初源自拉丁语的reducere:re(回)+ducere(带,领),意为带回,恢复,撤退。

【词义辨析】

decrease diminish lessen reduce dwindle
decrease: 指逐渐地、不断地减少。
diminish: 侧重大小、数量和重要性的不断减小,强调减小的部分。
lessen: 普通用词,与decrease近义。指数目、程度、价值、实力等的减少。
reduce: 普通用词,含义广。指数量、程度的降低或减少。
dwindle: 与decrease同义,指逐渐减小,但强调变得越来越少终至全无。

【词语用法】

  1. 当表达“使……不得不”的意思时,更多采用reduce…to doing(动名词),而很少用动词原形;
  2. reduce to和reduce by的意义不同。reduce to表示“减少到了”,而后者表示“减少了”,表程度。
动词 reduce:

1.

cut down on; make a reduction in

同义词:cut down,cut back,trim,trim down,trim back,cut,bring down

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

同义词:come down,boil down

7.

reduce in size; reduce physically

同义词:shrink

8.

lessen and make more modest

9.

make smaller

同义词:scale down

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

同义词:deoxidize,deoxidise

11.

narrow or limit

同义词:tighten

12.

put down by force or intimidation

同义词:repress,quash,keep down,subdue,subjugate

13.

undergo meiosis

14.

reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

15.

destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

16.

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

同义词:abridge,foreshorten,abbreviate,shorten,cut,contract

17.

be cooked until very little liquid is left

同义词:boil down,decoct,concentrate

18.

cook until very little liquid is left

同义词:boil down,concentrate

19.

lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

同义词:dilute,thin,thin out,cut

20.

take off weight

同义词:melt off,lose weight,slim,slenderize,thin,slim down

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