reduce是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 减少， 缩小； 简化， 还原，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, thanks to his wife's presence, that feeling did not reduce him to despair.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to look behind details and impressive-sounding lists of technical terms for the causes of things, for general rules which might reduce the chaos of dissimilar and contradictory symptoms to the orderliness of chemistry.
-- Now this may startle you--oh, you had a lot of crank notions when you were in school, but you aren't the only one that does some thinking for himself!--sometimes I believe it'd be better for the general health situation if there weren't any public health departments at all, because they get a lot of people into the habit of going to free clinics instead of to private physicians, and cut down the earnings of the doctors and reduce their number, so there are less of us to keep a watchful eye on sickness.
-- To the defense of his chief he was the more impelled by the attitude of Irving Watters and such other physicians as attacked Pickerbaugh because they feared that he really would be successful, and reduce their earnings.
-- Only, in the interests of economy, I reduce your salary to eight hundred dollars a year!"
-- "All right, reduce and be damned," said Martin.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions!Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort!That's the easiest solution of the problem!It's seductively clear and you musn't think about it.
-- Their eyes met, and the fire in Raskolnikov's seemed ready to reduce him to ashes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let him go wherehe will, with the means that my love has secured to him!Does hethink to reduce me by long absence?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in this state it reached from floor to ceiling; and thrusting itself forward, with that excessively wide-awake aspect, and air of somewhat obtrusive politeness, by which figure-heads are usually characterised, seemed to reduce everything else to mere pigmy proportions.
-- If you wish to have this in writing, we'll reduce it into manuscript immediately.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Farewell to the old life!My mind is filled with numberless impressions, but I cannot yet reduce them to order."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You can reduce it as you please, then?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the sole idea, to turn upon the inanimate matter of the underground, and reduce it to his will.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ''That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being af-terwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspi-cious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
-- His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, remov-ing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva.
-- He put his hoof three or four times to them, as if he would signify, that I should reduce them to their former shape, which I presently did, pulling off both my gloves, and putting them into my pock-et.
-- If a prince sends forces into a nation, where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living.
-- The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the Brob-dingnagians; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, therefore the first, the oxide of iron, which they must reduce with coal, that is to say, get rid of the oxygen, to obtain it in a pure state.
-- In this way, under the influence of the air projected by the blowing-machine, the coal would be transformed into carbonic acid, then into oxide of carbon, its use being to reduce the oxide of iron, that is to say, to rid it of the oxygen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Were we, then, going to reach a position in which these phenomena were to be carried out in all their rigor, and in which the heat would reduce the rocks to a state of fusion?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We came upon them, indeed, in the dark, so that they could not see our number; and I made the man they had left in the boat, who was now one of us, to call them by name, to try if I could bring them to a parley, and so perhaps might reduce them to terms; which fell out just as we desired: for indeed it was easy to think, as their condition then was, they would be very willing to capitulate.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain, which threatened at twelve and began at one, served equally well to cause her to retrace her steps and remain within doors as it did to reduce Hurstwood's spirits and give him a wretched day.
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