reduce meaning in English
vt.
1.减少,减轻,节减;缩短,缩小;降低,贬低;使没落,使落魄。
2.使降服,征服,克服;攻陷(城市等)。
3.使衰弱,使退化。
4.使变为,使成为,迫使,使不得不。
5.把…归类[分类,整理]。
6.【数学】简化,约简;化为;缩减;折合。
7.【化学】还原;【冶金】提炼,精炼;从(原油)中蒸去轻质油。
8.【医学】使(脱臼等)复位,使复原。
9.使适合,使适应,使一致。
10.【火箭】整理(测量结果等);译解(代号等)。
11.【生物学】使(细胞)减数分裂。
12.【摄影】把(底片等)减薄,减低强度。
13.【语音】把(重读音)变为非重读音。
短语和例子
reduce production 减少生产。 a map on reduced scale 按比例缩小了的地图。 reduce wine to two-thirds by boiling 将葡萄酒煮沸浓缩成三分之二。 reduce the temperature 降低温度。 reduce prices 减低价格。 be reduced to a shadow 消瘦得像一个影子似的。 be in a very reduced state 非常衰弱。 be reduced to nothing [to a skeleton] 瘦成骨架子。 a reduced family 破落户。 reduce sb. to terror [tears] 使…恐怖[流泪]。 reduce to reason 使明理。 reduce the animals to classes 把动物分类。 reduce one's discourse into [to] writing 把谈话写成文章。 reduce a house to ashes 使房屋化为灰烬。 reduce a compound to its components 将化合物分解成各成分。 at a reduced price 廉价。 have the dislocation (shoulder) reduced 请人将脱臼(肩骨)复位。 in reduced circumstances 没落。 on a reduced scale 小规模地。 reduce a fraction 【数学】约分。 reduce an equation 【数学】解方程式。 reduce a rule to practice 使条文变成实践。 reduce oneself into 陷入…的地步。 reduce the establishment (公司,机关等)裁员。 reduce to an absurdity 使变成荒谬。 reduce to assert [asserting] an absurdity 使陷于不得不讲荒唐话的地步;使窘迫得语无伦次。 reduce to discipline 恢复秩序,平定,使归顺。 reduce to order [chaos] 使秩序井然[乱七八糟]。 reduce to powder 把…弄成碎粉。 reduce to subjection 征服。 reduce to the ranks 把…降为兵。
vi.
体重减轻;【生物学】减数分裂。 reducing agent 还原剂。 reducing division 【生物学】减数分裂。
- We have reduced the enemy to impotence .
我们已经使敌人丧失战斗力。 - Overwork has reduced him to a physical wreck .
他过度劳累而损害了健康。 - But he eventually reduced the price to $ 3 .
但他终于把价钱减到三英镑。 - A clement judge reduced his sentence .
一位仁慈的法官为他减了刑。 - This reduced body cavity is called a hemocoel .
这种缩小的体腔称为血腔。
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