reduce的用法

reduce是动词，通常可用作不及物动词，及物动词，也可用作宾补动词，有减少，缩小，节食，蒸发等含义。

reduce的释义

vt. 减少；缩小；使还原；使变弱

vi. 减少；节食；蒸发；（液体）浓缩变稠

第三人称单数：reduces；现在分词：reducing；过去式：reduced；过去分词：reduced

reduce的用法

1.用作不及物动词

I'm reducing.

我正在节食。

She has been reducing for the last few weeks.

最近几个星期她一直在节食。

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

对不起,我不吃糖,我在减肥。

2.用作及物动词

Some fat people try to reduce their weight.

有些肥胖人设法减肥。

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

若我们想要让买主从我们的手里买下这房子,就必须降低售价。

3.用作宾补动词

Hunger reduced him to steal.

饥饿使他不得不行窃。

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

在旧社会,贫穷使许多人不得不在街上乞讨。