reduce
英式音标：reduce怎么读
美式音标：reduce怎么读
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近义词： lower,decrease,moderate,diminish,lessen,cut
反义词： increase
reduce词义
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vt. 减少；降低；使处于；把…分解vi. 减少；缩小；归纳为
词态变化
第三人称单数: reduces;过去式: reduced;过去分词: reduced;现在分词: reducing;
中文词源
reduce 减少，缩小，简化
re-,向后，往回，-duc,拉，词源同 deduce,deduct.即拉回，引申词义减少，缩小。
reduce双语例句
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- 1. The job losses will reduce the total workforce to 7,000.
- 职位减少后，在职工人总数将减至7,000人。
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- 2. He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.
- 他终于纠正了自己的错误说法，提出要减少费用。
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- 3. The plan is designed to reduce some of the company's mountainous debt.
- 该计划旨在减少公司堆积如山的债务。
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- 4. The agency should reduce turnaround time by 11 per cent.
- 该代理机构应削减11%的周转时间。
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- 5. They believed that controlling the money supply would reduce inflation.
- 他们相信控制货币供应量会减少通货膨胀。
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reduce英文词源
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- reduce
- reduce: [14] ‘Lessen, diminish’ is a comparatively recent semantic development for reduce. Its Latin ancestor was certainly not used in that sense. This was redūcere, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and dūcere ‘lead, bring’ (source of English duct, duke, educate, etc). It meant literally ‘bring back’, hence ‘restore’ and also ‘withdraw’.
The original ‘bring back’ made the journey to English, and even survived into the early 17th century (‘reducing often to my memory the conceit of that Roman stoic’, Sir Henry Wotton, Elements of Architecture 1624). The sense ‘lessen, diminish’ seems to be the result of a semantic progression from ‘bring back to a particular condition’ via ‘bring back to order’ and ‘bring to subjection’.
=> duct, duke, educate, introduce, produce, redoubt - reduce (v.)
- late 14c., "bring back," from Old French reducer (14c.), from Latin reducere "lead back, bring back," figuratively "restore, replace," from re- "back" (see re-) + ducere "bring, lead" (see duke (n.)). Meaning "bring to an inferior condition" is 1570s; that of "bring to a lower rank" is 1640s (military reduce to ranks is from 1802); that of "subdue by force of arms" is 1610s. Sense of "to lower, diminish, lessen" is from 1787. Related: Reduced; reducing.
reduce实用场景例句
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- Reduce speed now (= on a sign) .
- 减速行驶。
牛津词典
- Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.
- 过去一年，各项费用已经减少了20%。
牛津词典
- Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
- 戒烟会减少得心脏病的风险。
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- The number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25.
- 雇员人数从40人减少到了25人。
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- The skirt was reduced to £10 in the sale.
- 在大减价期间，这条裙子减价到10英镑。
牛津词典
- a reducing plan
- 节食计划
牛津词典
- a beautiful building reduced to rubble
- 已化为残垣断壁的漂亮建筑
牛津词典
- She was reduced to tears by their criticisms.
- 他们的批评使她流下了眼泪。
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- They were reduced to begging in the streets.
- 他们沦落到沿街乞讨。
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- We can reduce the problem to two main issues.
- 我们可以将这个问题概括成两个要点。
牛津词典
- It reduces the risks of heart disease...
- 这降低了患心脏病的风险。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent...
- 消费下降了25个百分点。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They were reduced to extreme poverty...
- 他们陷入极端贫困的状态。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They wanted the army reduced to a police force.
- 他们想把这支队伍降级为一支警察部队。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He was reduced to begging for a living.
- 他不得不以乞讨为生。
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- All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble...
- 城里所有的建筑都成了废墟。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Politics has been reduced to class struggle.
- 政治变成了阶级斗争。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Boil the liquid in a small saucepan to reduce it by half...
- 用小炖锅炖，收一半汤汁。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Simmer until mixture reduces.
- 用小火煮到汤汁收浓。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her challenge reduced them to silence.
- 她的质问让他们哑口无言。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The attentions of the media reduced her to tears.
- 媒体的关注把她弄哭了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I felt instinctively negative toward Stevenson.
- 我对史蒂文森却本能地有反感.
辞典例句
- We must carry on the patriotic public health campaign with a great fanfare, reduce disease and improve health conditions.
- 要大张旗鼓地开展爱国卫生运动, 减少疾病,提高健康水平.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The government must make new policies to reduce unemployment.
- 政府必须制定减少失业的新政策.
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- The government will look into how to reduce unemployment.
- 政府将研究如何降低失业率.
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- The drug can reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.
- 这种药能降低发病次数和严重程度.
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