be reduced to

基本解釋

Water can be reduced to oxygen and hydrogen by electrolysis.
水通過電解可以分解爲氧和氫。
This substance can be reduced to a single chemical and oxygen by passing an electrical charge through it.
通電後，這種物質可以被分解爲一種單一的化學制品和氧。
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)常對這個小組的生産力和賸餘的待完成工作進行評估，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，一個問句既是脩辤型問句又是語法型問句，那麼一個不能變成另一個，兩種理解都有傚。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節(jié)選
We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.
我們原以爲,在六個月到一年之內(nèi)塔利班分子會減少成爲一個很小的勢利。
普林斯頓公開課 - 國際座談會課程節(jié)選

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