| 单词 | reduce |
| 释义 | re·duce transitive verb 1. a. < for the sake of brevity I reduce all their questions to one — Arnold Isenberg > < all springs reduce their currents to my eyes — Shakespeare > b. (1) < the highway, here reduced to a street — G.R.Stewart > < reduce excise rates on automobiles — Wall Street Journal > < abolition of aggressive weapons would … reduce the likelihood of aggressive war — R.L.Buell > < a safety campaign to reduce forest fires > < a diet to reduce weight > (2) (3) < the residue or topped crude oil is further reduced — W.L.Nelson & A.P.Buthod > c. < when we know more about the capacities of man, we do not reduce them, but expand them — A.H.Compton > < the Indians were reduced to a small fragment of their former domain — E.M.Coulter > d. < great body of religious lyrics … skillfully reduced and edited — H.S.Bennett > < double ax-head occurring among the hieroglyphic forms reduced to a linear outline — Edward Clodd > 2. archaic a. < reduce the Protestants within the pale of the Romish Church — Nicholas Tindal > b. < if any of these erring men may be reduced, I have my end — John Milton > 3. a. obsolete < with these words reduce they thoughts that roam — William Austin > b. obsolete < reduce, replant our bishop president — Edward Dering > c. < his task was to reduce to order the economic and political chaos following war — W.L.Fleming > 4. archaic a. < traitors … that would reduce these bloody days again — Shakespeare > b. < reduce them to their former shape — Jonathan Swift > 5. a. (1) < after a long seige he reduced Alexandria — Encyc. Americana > < a pioneer … reducing the savage wilderness for civilization — D.B.Davis > < about thirty years ago the aboriginal tribes of the interior were reduced — E.P.Hanson > (2) < reduce a salient > < reduce a machine gun nest > b. < helped reduce the New Amsterdam Dutch to English control — R.P.Stearns > c. (1) < one passage so painful that he was reduced to explain it by the arts of … wizards — G.G.Coulton > (2) < were reduced to the knee holds and body clings detested by all mountaineers — D.L.Busk > (3) < a scene that had reduced his wife to tears — Scott Fitzgerald > < his exaggerated stories had reduced the patrons to openmouthed credulity — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > d. obsolete < it was necessary … their tempers be reduced by my kindness — Daniel Defoe > e. 6. a. < attempt to reduce life, mind, and spirit to the quantitative categories of physics, chemistry, and mathematics — W.R.Inge > b. < system of nature, which it is the business of science to study and reduce to laws — C.H.Whiteley > c. < the idea … was reduced to exact form — Graham Wallas > d. < reduce to writing his notions regarding the ideal bird dog — W.F.Brown b.1903 > 7. a. b. c. 8. a. chiefly Scots law b. < reduced from cruiser command to an inconspicuous post in the merchant marine because of … political differences — Lee Rogow > 9. a. < at storekeeping he was a failure, and … was soon reduced to poverty — H.E.Starr > < an old Crusader … reduced to menial work — T.B.Costain > < historical reporting … reduces the novel to a news supplement — Allen Tate > b. < reduced to going about the … villages soliciting alms — J.G.Frazer > < radicals … who used to speak of Russia as a land of hope are now reduced to saying that it is no worse than any other country — Zechariah Chafee > c. < my father was so reduced, that I … made a bed for him on the deck — Charles Dickens > d. < rising sun quickly reduced the fog > as (1) (2) (3) e. < stocks have been reduced to a low level — Collier's Year Book > 10. a. (1) < reduce days and hours to minutes > (2) < reduce fractions to a common denominator > (3) b. < given … credit for reducing time to space — N.E.Nelson > < reduce disputes about ideas and values to factual, sociological terms — Cushing Strout > < reduce government regulations to plain language > c. (1) < reducing all sentential connectives to the stroke function > (2) 11. a. < breaker rolls … reduce the wheat kernels to middlings — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < tree stumps left on a clearing … are reduced by swarms of ants — C.D.Forde > < a recent earthquake reduced the cathedral of Cuzco almost to a heap of rubble — Angélica Mendoza > b. archaic c. < reduce trees to lumber > < reduce pilchards into oil and meal > d. 12. a. < iron ores are reduced to metallic iron > < metals are reduced from their ores > — compare smelt b. < reduce anthraquinone to anthracene > c. < acetaldehyde is reduced to alcohol in the final step of alcoholic fermentation > d. < reduce mercuric chloride to mercurous chloride > : change (an element or ion) from a higher to a lower oxidation state < in electrolysis, ferric ions are reduced to ferrous ions at the cathode — Farrington Daniels & R.A.Alberty > : add one or more electrons to (an atom or ion or molecule) < reduce ionic copper to metallic copper > — opposed to oxidize 13. < faces the task of reducing theory to a course of instruction — J.R.Butler > 14. a. (1) (2) b. intransitive verb 1. a. < no more, thanks, I'm reducing > b. < let the stock reduce, strain … and keep hot — Roger Angell > c. d. < the number 53, which is composed of 5 and 3, reduces to the primate number 8 — W.B.Gibson > 2. < romanticism and classicism … reduce in the end to differences of psychological type — Herbert Read > 3. < poster paints reduce with water > 4. < canneries send a stink of reducing fish into the air — John Steinbeck > Synonyms: see conquer, decrease |
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