reduce的意思

vt. 減少；縮??；使還原；使變弱

vi. 減少；節(jié)食；蒸發(fā)；（液體）濃縮變稠

reduce的用法

用作動詞(v.)

用作不及物動詞

S+～(+A)

I'm reducing.

我正在節(jié)食。

She has been reducing for the last few weeks.

最近幾個星期她一直在節(jié)食。

No sugar, thank you —I'm trying to reduce.

對不起,我不吃糖,我在減肥。

They are trying a new diet in order to reduce.

他們?yōu)榱藴p肥,正試用一種新食譜。

S+～+to-v

I must reduce to get into that fine dress.

要想穿上那件好衣服,我就得減肥。

用作及物動詞

S+～+n./pron.

Some fat people try to reduce their weight.

有些肥胖人設法減肥。

We shall have to reduce the price if we want this buyer to take the house off our hands.

若我們想要讓買主從我們的手里買下這房子,就必須降低售價。

The new working method further reduced production costs.

新的操作方法進一步降低了生產成本。

What the factory should do now is to try to reduce the production cost.

該廠現(xiàn)在應做的就是設法降低生產成本。

用作賓補動詞

S+～+n./pron.+to-v

Hunger reduced him to steal.

饑餓使他不得不行竊。

In those days poverty reduced many people to beg in the street.

在舊社會,貧窮使許多人不得不在街上乞討。

其他

v-edasAttrib.

They went to the cinema at a reduced fare.

他們以優(yōu)惠票價看了一場電影。

She could not face up to the prospect of living in reduced circumstances.

她沒有勇氣面對每況愈下的生活前景。

The country's present difficulties arise from the reduced value of its money.

該國目前的困難起因于其貨幣的貶值。

The people must reconcile themselves to a reduced standard of living.

人們必須使自己習慣于生活水平的下降。

reduce的用法例句

1. The job losses will reduce the total workforce to 7,000.

職位減少后，在職工人總數(shù)將減至7,000人。

2. He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.

他終于糾正了自己的錯誤說法，提出要減少費用。

3. The plan is designed to reduce some of the company's mountainous debt.

該計劃旨在減少公司堆積如山的債務。

4. The agency should reduce turnaround time by 11 per cent.

該代理機構應削減11%的周轉時間。

5. They believed that controlling the money supply would reduce inflation.

他們相信控制貨幣供應量會減少通貨膨脹。

6. Hybridising the two species will reduce the red to orange.

將這兩個物種雜交后顏色會由紅色淡化成橙色。