reduce的意思 reduce的意思是什么

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
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

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

1.减少；减小；减轻
If youreduce 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 someoneis 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。

3.迫使;使不得不（做）；使只得
If you say that someoneis 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 itis 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 youreduce liquid when you are cooking, or if itreduces, it is boiled in order to make it less in quantity and thicker.

e.g. Boil the liquid in a small saucepan toreduce 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 livingin 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 somethingreduces youto silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.

reduce

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 somethingreduces youto 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。

• Potatoes..cooked so long that they have been reduced to a watery flour.

  出自：F. King

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‘llreduce the price .
如果你大量订购，我们可以降价

1. reduce的基本意思是“减少”,指重量、程度、数目、范围、速度等减少或降低,不仅可以指量的变化,还可以指质的转变。引申可作“降职”“使…陷入某种状态或状况中”“将…概括或简化”“将…还原”“征服”“攻陷”等解。
2. reduce可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词或代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。
3. reduce偶尔也可接动词不定式作宾语补足语,意思是“使…不得不…”。
4. reduce后常接介词by表示“以某幅度减少”或“以…方法减少”; reduce常接介词to表示“减少到…”或“使陷入…状态”。
5. reduce的过去分词reduced常可用作形容词,在句中作定语。

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。