reduction是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 减小， 减少， 缩小，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：
-- He felt so mirthful that, contrary to his rules, he made a reduction in his terms to the haggling lady, and gave up catching moths, finally deciding that next winter he must have the furniture covered with velvet, like Sigonin's.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among his economies was the reduction of his son's allowance.
-- It was evident that they both knew of the second reduction and considered it an excellent joke.
-- Terry croaked, "Don't trust math too much, son," and he so confused him with references to the thermo-dynamical derivation of the mass action law, and to the oxidation reduction potential, that he stumbled again into raging humility, again saw himself an impostor and a tenth-rater.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found them to be the perfect isolation of 784prisoners- so that no one man in confinement there, knew anythingabout another; and the reduction of prisoners to a wholesome stateof mind, leading to sincere contrition and repentance.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer to give him a room on the second floor, and to make a corresponding reduction in her charges.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I wanted to find out the necessary increase of weight required to sink the Nautilus, I had only to calculate the reduction of volume that sea-water acquires according to the depth."
-- Indeed, after the most recent calculations this reduction is only .000436 of an atmosphere for each thirty feet of depth.
-- If we want to sink 3,000 feet, I should keep account of the reduction of bulk under a pressure equal to that of a column of water of a thousand feet.
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：
-- 'It is a desire for the reduction process in oneself, a reducing back to the origin, a return along the Flux of Corruption, to the original rudimentary conditions of being !'
-- 'And if, Julius, you want this ecstasy of reduction with the Pussum, you must go on till it is fulfilled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes, thus mutely appealed to; and possibly feeling his personal pride and influence interested in the immediate reduction of Miss Nancy to reason; gave utterance to about a couple of score of curses and threats, the rapid production of which reflected great credit on the fertility of his invention.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This reduction is made by subjecting the ore with coal to a high temperature, either by the rapid and easy Catalan method, which has the advantage of transforming the ore into iron in a single operation, or by the blast furnace, which first smelts the ore, then changes it into iron, by carrying away the three to four per cent.
-- This ore, very rich in iron, enclosed in its fusible veinstone, was perfectly suited to the mode of reduction which the engineer intended to employ; that is, the Catalan method, but simplified, as it is used in Corsica.
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