But,to be on the safe side, he also places a smaller bet on the other team, to reduce a possible loss.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

So, The Norton Anthology, this book, this heavy book, I order it as a way to, well, reduce your expenses.

叫《一首诗的心路历程》，就在这本诺顿诗集里，我自己订购了一本，这样可以减少你们的花费。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

the United States announced a target to reduce its emissions by 17% below 2005 levels in 2020.

美国宣布了到2020年实现在2005年的水平基础上减排17%的目标。

对全球变暖的政策 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is some of her advice: Before competition, extend your nightly sleep for several weeks to reduce a sleep debt.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"This year a lot of stores are trying to reduce prices to help bring customers in during this time of recession.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

And one thing that seems intrinsically bad, one thing that seems to reduce the value of a life, is pain.

有一样东西看似本身就是坏的，它似乎在减少生命的价值，是痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The two sides have been negotiating a new treaty to reduce nuclear arms, to replace a treaty that ends in December.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

Linear algorithms tend to be things where, at one pass-through, you reduce the problem by a constant amount by one. If you reduce it by two, 1 it's going to be the same thing.

有问题么？,线性复杂度的算法，当进行了一个,常量级步数的操作的时候，将问题的规模缩小了一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

English law defined seditious libel as criticizing the government in such a way as to reduce public confidence.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

So, African Americans also are biased against African Americans and in favor of white Americans, showing it doesn't reduce to group favoritism though that probably plays a big role.

所以黑人也是,对黑人有偏见,倾向于白人，这样表明组内偏爱,所起的影响并不大。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The House of Representatives moved quickly to pass a moderate bill that would reduce many of the tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

There's a very important principle that finally comes out here, it is that you always want to reduce the variance of your portfolio as much as you can.

现在这里有一个非常重要的原则，即你总是想要降低你投资组合的方差,降得越低越好。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It combines a tax cut for employers and spending for road projects in an effort to reduce unemployment.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

So tens or hundreds of millions of dollars would go into a study like this by the time it was completed, money that could have been used for other things, to test whether eating a low fat diet would reduce risk for breast cancer.

数以百万计的美元,投入到这样的研究,当研究结束时,本可以用来做其他事情的钱,被用来检测是否低脂膳食,可降低患乳腺癌风险

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Many people take aspirin to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke from blood clots.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

If you pass a function in C, a value that it's not expecting bad things happen and bad things generally reduce to segfault.

如果你在C中传递一个函数，一个没有预料的情况将会出现,这个情况通常是段错误。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A physical therapist can design an individualized exercise program to reduce arthritis pain and support healthy joints.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

You can either think of it as an arrow and imagine the arrow, or you can reduce it to a pair of numbers, x and y.

你既可以用有向线段来表示,也可以用一组数字来表示,x 和 y

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

To reduce costs, you might look into online classes or a foreign campus of an American school.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And then, three: if not, reduce to a smaller problem, and repeat.

把问题缩减成一个更小的问题，然后重复,恩，这看起来很清晰了，是的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He says eHealth will offer a way to reduce the effects of health worker shortages and make it easier to train existing workers.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Well, you can see you're going to be dividing not by a hundred here, but by a hundred times a hundred, so it's going to reduce this from .04 to .004.

你可以看出,这儿就不是除以100了,而是除以100*100了,这里就从0.04降到了0.004

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Wilson wasted no time. He immediately called a special session of Congress to act on Democratic campaign promises to reduce import taxes,or tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

How do I reduce this to a smaller-size problem in the same instant?

我怎么能把这个问题,缩小成更小规模的问题呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Next,President Arthur urged Congress to form a committee to find a way to reduce tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They have urged America to take a position of international leadership in coral reef protection and to take steps to reduce the trade's environmental effects.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

it's looking first to see am I in the base case, which I'm done. If I'm not I'm just going to reduce this to a smaller computation.

注意这个计算是干什么的，它先判断我是否属于基础事件,这个我已经做过了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now this is what Derrida is deliberately struggling with in this first paragraph: an "event" , if this loaded word did not entail a meaning thought to reduce or to suspect.

这就是德里达,在第一段着力解决的问题：,一个事件，加引号的，…,如果这个词的意思没有,减少或怀疑的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选