reduced是什么意思？

reduced

英[rɪ'dju:st] 美[rɪ'djust]

• adj. 减少的，简化的；
• v. 换算( reduce的过去式和过去分词 )，约束，使变为，使变弱；

例句

• Many old clothes were sold off at greatly reduced prices. 许多旧衣服大幅度地降价出售。
• His life's work can be reduced to a search for truth. 他的毕生事业可以说就是探求真理。
• His income has been reduced to half its amount. 他的收入减少了一半。
• His sudden death reduced the family to poverty. 他突然去世使家庭陷入贫困。
• The fighting reduced the city to a shambles. 这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟。
• The sand in the air reduced visibility to a hundred yards. 空中的沙尘将能见距离降低到100 码。
• He incurred a suspension on reduced pay. 他受到了降薪停职处分。
• Its people were thus reduced to slavery. 就这样它的人民都沦为奴隶了。
• The bad harvests in the last few years reduced the peasants to extreme poverty. 过去几年的庄稼歉收使农民变得极为贫困。
• The teacher soon reduced the noisy class to order. 教师很快就使这个乱哄哄的班恢复了秩序。

英语四级真题

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.
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reduced his revenues to a quarter of normal years
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But technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever—and therefore possible on a much larger scale.
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英语六级真题

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.
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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
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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.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  减少；减小；减轻
  If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree.
  例句
  It reduces the risks of heart disease... 这降低了患心脏病的风险。 Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent... 消费下降了25个百分点。
• VERB
  使沦为，使陷入（不好的境地）
  If someone is reduced to a weaker or inferior state, they become weaker or inferior as a result of something that happens to them.
  例句
  They were reduced to extreme poverty... 他们陷入极端贫困的状态。 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。
• VERB
  迫使;使不得不（做）；使只得
  If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing.
  例句
  He was reduced to begging for a living. 他不得不以乞讨为生。
• VERB
  使变成;使简化为
  If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form.
  例句
  All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble... 城里所有的建筑都成了废墟。 Politics has been reduced to class struggle. 政治变成了阶级斗争。
• V-ERG
  （烹调中）使变浓稠，收汁
  If you reduce liquid when you are cooking, or if it reduces, it is boiled in order to make it less in quantity and thicker.
  例句
  Boil the liquid in a small saucepan to reduce it by half... 用小炖锅炖，收一半汤汁。 Simmer until mixture reduces. 用小火煮到汤汁收浓。
• PHRASE
  境况变差;生活拮据
  If you say that someone is living in reduced circumstances, you mean that they do not have as much money as they used to have.
  例句
  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。
• PHRASE
  使…无言
  If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
  例句
  Her challenge reduced them to silence. 她的质问让他们哑口无言。
• PHRASE
  使…落泪
  If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  例句
  The attentions of the media reduced her to tears. 媒体的关注把她弄哭了。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. made less in size or amount or degree
  2. well below normal (especially in price)

行业词典

• 医学： 复位的：回复到适当地方或位置的，例如复位的骨折；还原的：恢复至金属形式的(例如还原铁)，或因化学变化涉及电子增益而产生改变的；