be reduced

基本解释

Making a decision of that magnitude cannot be reduced to a formula.
做出這樣重大的一個決定不能被降低到一個公式。
But by grouping them by sound rather than appearance, the number of characters can be reduced to about 50 of the most common, enough to write messages when mapped to a small number of keys.
但是如果將它們按讀音而不是外形將它們逐一分類時，最常用語的數量就減少到了50個，這些對於發信息來說已經足夠了，竝可以被分配在很少的按鍵上。
In the meantime, people like Allen Frances will agitate for the number of diagnoses and their scope to be reduced.
屆時，像艾倫·福朗瑟斯一樣的人們將會因書中診斷詞條的數量和縮減餘地而憂慮。

"The lower the euro is, the more competitive these economies become and,therefore, the more the fiscal concerns are going to be reduced."
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，那麽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 - 國際座談會課程節選

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