reduce

英 [rɪ'djuːs] 美 [rɪ'duːs]

• v. 减少；缩小；使落魄；简化；还原

形容词: reducible 副词: reducibly 名词: reducer 过去式: reduced 过去分词: reduced 现在分词: reducing 第三人称单数: reduces

reduce的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

详尽释义

v. (动词)

1. 减少
2. 缩小
3. 减轻体重
4. 降服
5. 使降级
6. 约简
7. 减肥
8. 换算
9. 折合
10. 化为
11. 体重减轻
12. 【生】减数分裂
13. 使处于
14. 节减
15. 使化为
16. 缩短
17. 降低
18. 贬低
19. 使没落
20. 使降职
21. 使落魄
22. 把…归纳
23. 使降服
24. 征服
25. 把…归并
26. 把…弄碎
27. 克服
28. 攻陷
29. 把…分解
30. 使衰弱
31. 把…分析
32. 使变弱
33. 使退化
34. 使变为
35. 使变瘦
36. 使成为
37. 把…折合
38. 迫使
39. 归纳为
40. 节食
41. 变瘦
42. 缩减
43. 减弱
44. 还原
45. 稀释
46. 复原
47. 减数分裂

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 缩减,减少; 降低 make less in size, amount, price, degree, etc.
2. vi. 减轻体重,节食 lose weight intentionly; diet
3. vt. 降职 make sb lower in rank or status; demote sb
4. vt. 使…陷入某种状态或状况中 bring sb/sth into a specified state or condition
5. vt. 将…概括或简化 change sth to a more general or basic form
6. vt. 将…还原 remove oxygen from or add hydrogen or electrons to (a compound)

英英释义

Verb:

1. cut down on; make a reduction in;

   "reduce your daily fat intake"
   "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
   

2. make less complex;

   "reduce a problem to a single question"
   

3. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;

   "He reduced the population to slavery"
   

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;

   "She reduced her niece to a servant"
   

6. be the essential element;

   "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
   

7. reduce in size; reduce physically;

   "Hot water will shrink the sweater"
   "Can you shrink this image?"
   

8. lessen and make more modest;

   "reduce one's standard of living"
   

9. make smaller;

   "reduce an image"
   

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;

    "reduce the influx of foreigners"
    

12. put down by force or intimidation;

    "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"
    "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"
    "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
    

13. undergo meiosis;

    "The cells reduce"
    

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;

    "The manuscript must be shortened"
    

17. be cooked until very little liquid is left;

    "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
    

18. cook until very little liquid is left;

    "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
    

19. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;

    "cut bourbon"
    

20. take off weight

reduce的用法和样例：

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. We must gradually reduce the wage gap.
   我们要逐步缩小工资差距。
4. They were reduced to begging.
   他们沦落到得要饭。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

reduce by (v.+prep.)

用…方法还原 remove oxygen from or add hydrogen or electrons to (a compound) with sth

reduce from (v.+prep.)

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。

reduce in (v.+prep.)

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。

reduce to (v.+prep.)

折合; 分解成 change; separate sth such as a mixture or combination into its parts
reduce 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 sth

I 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 sth

To 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

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• 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

～+副词

• 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

～+介词

• 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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近反义词

【近义词】

• bankrupt
• break
• contract
• cut
• force
• shorten
• trim
• weaken

【反义词】

• boost
• fatten
• increase
• upgrade