例句
同义词
反义词
同义词解析
  • 以下这些协词的共同含义是"减少,变少"。
    decrease指逐渐地、不断地减少。
    diminish侧重大小数量和重要性的不断减小,强调减小的部分。
    lessen普通用词,与decrease近义。指数目、程度、价值、实力等的减少。
    reduce普通用词,含义广。指数量、程度的降低或减少。
    dwindle与decrease同义,指逐渐减小,但强调变得越来越少终至全无。
词组
  • reduced circumstances
    used euphemistically to refer to the state of being poor after being relatively wealthy [委婉表达从富到穷]生活窘迫
  • reduce someone to the ranks
    demote a non-commissioned officer to an ordinary soldier 把军士降为普通士兵
英语四级真题
  • They think, ‘Well, if I gradually reduce, it's like practice,' says Lindson-Hawley.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They choose purpose over happiness—having a clear sense of purpose even reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • It will not necessarily reduce road accidents.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They reduce production drastically to boost oil prices.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • There is no effective way to reduce people's sugar consumption.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Reducing food intake is not that difficult if people go to McDonald's more.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It may be a pleasant way for kids to reduce their food intake.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • For example, having salt on the outside, but none on the inside, reduces the salt content without changing the taste.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Parents and students who have invested heavily in higher education worry about graduates' job prospects as technological advances and changes in domestic and global markets transform professions in ways that reduce wages and cut jobs.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • Printing with moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • But technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever—and therefore possible on a much larger scale.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • These make alcohol less easy to get and reduce the number of psychological cues to drink.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • optimistic about Obama's effort to reduce CO2 emissions
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • What we are suggesting is that a population-wide effort to reduce salt intake, even slightly, will have health benefits.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • reduced his revenues to a quarter of normal years
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • For example, but for the savings and loan debacle, there might be funds available to reduce the national debt and pay for education.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • How emissions of heat-trapping gases can be reduced on a global scale
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Dr William Bird, researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, states in his study, "A natural environment can reduce violent behaviour because its restorative process helps reduce anger and impulsive behaviour.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Getting a divorce means risking a reduced life span
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • And it would take an average of 65 years for the reduced carbon emissions from a new energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one.
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • "They think, 'Well, if I gradually reduce, it's like practice,'" says Lindson-Hawley.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • A dry mouth may reduce taste sensitivity, but taste is restored by drinking fluids.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • According to the same study, efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Initiatives also include efforts to reduce its environmental impact, water consumption and materials used in packaging by 2025.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Maintaining safe speeds and being electric, self-driving cars would drastically reduce pollution levels and dependency on non-renewable fuels.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Marine life may be affected too: El niños can reduce the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich water that supports large fish 35 populations, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Offering support services to spouses caring for their other halves may reduce marital stress and prevent divorce at older ages, she said.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • PepsicCo's plan for its foods and drinks is based on guidelines from the World Health Organization, which last week backed using taxes on sparkling drinks to reduce sugar consumption.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The researchers argued that breakfast helps reduce daily calorie intake and improve the quality of our diet—since breakfast foods are often higher in fibre and nutrients.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert sa
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • Pricing carbon proves the most economical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • To reduce or avoid it, researchers have examined the effect of smoking, diet, brain-challenging games, exercise and other strategies.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • While yoga and meditation ( ' , 静思 ) are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Science has shown a clear correlation between high stress levels in workers and absenteeism ( ' , 旷工 ), reduced productivity, disengagement and high turnover.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It will motivate all nations to reduce carbon emissions.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It will effectively reduce greenhouse emissions worldwide.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • In-office wellness programs may help reduce stress levels, but they are hardly an ultimate solution to the problem.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • There is no doubt that spaceflight entails risks, and to pioneer a new mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce them with the benefit of hard-won experience.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Swedish family policies, by accommodating women's preferences effectively, are reducing the number of women in elite competitive positions.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • In addition to a 16-month leave,a Swedish parent has the right to work six hours a day (for a reduced salary)until his or her child is eight years old.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their enthusiasm and reduce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will reward them for high performance.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • In the future, more effective washing techniques, management procedures, and recycling and purification of water will be needed to reduce wastage
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Cell phones also can diminish social tolerance because they reduce children's interactions with others who are different from them.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • If no penalty is imposed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing their productivity as well.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • By some studies, the safety nets for retirees have reduced fertility rates by 0.5 By some studies, the safety nets for retirees have reduced fertility rates by 0.5 children in the United States and almost 1.0 in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.0 in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • In response to the embargo, the US government enforced a series of policies designed to reduce reliance on foreign oil.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • When China starts to reduce its current foreign reserves.
    出自-2012年12月阅读原文
  • That sense of urgency has increased interest in capturing and storing CO2, which the IPCC says could provide the more than 50% reduction in emissions thought needed to reduce global warming.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • In face of global warming, much effort has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of strategies.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • We see the potential for capture and storage to play an integral role in reducing emissions," says Kim Corley, Shell's senior advisor of CO2 and environmental affairs
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • According to a study by George Borjas, a Harvard economist, immigration reduced the wages of American high-school dropouts by 9% between 1980-2000.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • By far the most effective method to restrain pension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer, because it increases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • They will be reduced if paid in cash.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • Actually, it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climate change problem and reduce emissions.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • As long as robots add to the sum of human happiness, reduce suffering, and create time to read world-class journalism, we should be their fans.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to o
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • By creating more awareness around your efforts to reduce waste, and by developing a culture of responsibility, repair, and reuse, you can build customer loyalty based on shared values .
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I think that by having people adopt a healthy lifestyle, both from a medical standpoint as well as nutritional and cognitive stimulation standpoint, we can reduce the incidence of cognitive decline, which will be proof that these factors are, in fact, imp
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Ruel says in the 1980s Thailand was able to reduce child undernourishment by recruiting a large number of volunteers to travel the countryside teaching about health and nutrition.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Sommerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • The country is also planning to reduce its carbon footprint by 80-95% by 2050, sparking a shift to green energy in the country.
    2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • The finding points to longstanding evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • They hope to reduce both the number of components needed in a construction job and their weight一by replacing solid supports with hollow tubes, for example.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • This could reduce the amount of steel needed to make everything from automobiles to buildings and bridges.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • This week the Italian government passed legislation that aimed to dramatically reduce the amount of food wasted in the country.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • While yoga and meditation are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • with so much stuff in space, and a limited area around our planet, the government wants to reduce the chances of a collision.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • You can do your share to reduce the chances that your children will become part of the drug culture by treating all medicines with respect.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Verb
    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. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
    "The manuscript must be shortened"
    16. be cooked until very little liquid is left;
    "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
    17. cook until very little liquid is left;
    "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
    18. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
    "cut bourbon"
    19. take off weight
行业词典
  • 体育: 减少;
    医学: 复位:回复到正常的位置,例如骨折复位;还原:化学上,指还原某物;减少:重量的下降;
    法律: 精简;折抵;压缩;