| 词组 | reduce |
| 释义 | reduce [reduced, reduced, reducing] reduce to 1. reduce sb to tears/despair/silence etc to make someone feel very upset, afraid, or quiet: ▪ The sight of those poor children reduced me to tears. reduce sb to a nervous wreck BrE ▪ Just the thought of going to the dentist reduces him to a nervous wreck! 2. reduce sb/sth to sth to cause someone or something to be in a very bad situation or a very low and unimportant position: ▪ A disastrous business venture had reduced him to near ruin. ▪ The movie tells the tragic story of a once-famous musician reduced to poverty. ▪ Too much emphasis has been placed on exams and tests, and education has been reduced to an exercise in learning facts. 3. be reduced to (doing) sth if someone is reduced to doing something unpleasant, boring, or embarrassing, they have to do it because they are in a difficult situation and have no choice: ▪ She lost her job as manager and was reduced to doing barwork. ▪ Local villagers have been reduced to eating nuts and worms as a result of crop failures. ■ SIMILAR TO: to have to resort to 4. reduce sth to sth to damage or destroy something so that there is almost nothing left: ▪ The fire spread rapidly, reducing the factory to a pile of twisted metal. reduce sth to ashes/rubble/dust/ruins ▪ Much of the city centre was reduced to rubble by wartime bombing. 5. reduce sth to sth to make something shorter and simpler: ▪ Their whole business philosophy can be reduced to a simple slogan - make it fast and sell it cheap. ▪ The artist has reduced the face to four blobs - two for the eyes, and one each for the nose and mouth. |
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