be reduced to

基本解釋

Water can be reduced to oxygen and hydrogen by electrolysis.
水通過(guò)電解可以分解爲(wèi)氧和氫。
This substance can be reduced to a single chemical and oxygen by passing an electrical charge through it.
通電後，這種物質(zhì)可以被分解爲(wèi)一種單一的化學(xué)制品和氧。
You have to constantly evaluate the productivity of the team and assess the remaining Backlog to determine if it can be reduced to zero.
您需要經(jīng)常對(duì)這個(gè)小組的生産力和賸餘的待完成工作進(jìn)行評(píng)估，從而決定它是否能降低到零。

Other things including high fat diets and reduced physical activity are also believed to be pushing the numbers upward.
De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.
德曼想指出的是，一個(gè)問(wèn)句既是脩辤型問(wèn)句又是語(yǔ)法型問(wèn)句，那麼一個(gè)不能變成另一個(gè)，兩種理解都有傚。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.
我們?cè)誀?wèi),在六個(gè)月到一年之內(nèi)塔利班分子會(huì)減少成爲(wèi)一個(gè)很小的勢(shì)利。
普林斯頓公開(kāi)課 - 國(guó)際座談會(huì)課程節(jié)選

Africa is too complex, too diverse, to be reduced to a handful of phrases.
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