People are trying to find simple ways to decrease their effect on the planet.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

So would you expect, therefore, as we go across a row for the atomic radius, to increase or to decrease? Good. OK, yes.

那么大家觉得，原子半径沿着某一行向右走，是会增大还是会减小呢？很好，不错，是的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Not only are we taking away an electron here, but we're also going to decrease shielding, so the electrons that are already in there are going to feel a higher z effective and will be pulling and the atom will be getting smaller.

这不只是因为我们拿走了一个电子，还因为我们这样做会减小屏蔽效应，这样留下的电子,将会感受到更大的有效核电量,也就会感受到更强的吸引力，使得原子变得更小。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The mixture caused the number of stem cells to decrease.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The pressure is going to decrease along the way, but it's going to have to do more work So the majority in this case is right.

根据这个式子，做的功,因此多数派是正确的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The amendments are meant to decrease the number of documents NGOs are required to provide and ease the registration process.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

I have got to put that in because that is a repulsive energy and that is going to decrease the energy of the system.

我必须要说清楚,因为这是一个排斥能,这将要减少这一系统的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In the face of opposition from Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, and to gain his vote, Senate lawmakers first dropped the government insurance option and then an alternative plan to decrease the eligibility age for the existing government Medicare program.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

And it speaks to what I said is my concern that Child Main Nutrition decrease by only 1 percentage point while economy cotinues to...grow -I see.

这也是我提过的我所关心的问题,经济还在高速增长的同时,儿童营养满足率,却掉了1个百分点，-我知道。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The study identified factors that seem to increase or decrease the risk that a child will be a bully.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

.. And I begin by remembering... this is the way I begin most of my economic thoughts ...a conversation I had with Milton Friedman And Milton started with the position, first of all, what he wanted to do was decrease government spending.

我记得。,我习惯这么思考经济问题了,我记得曾和米尔顿·弗里德曼谈过一次话,刚开始，米尔顿的立场是，有一点先说明，他其实是希望,政府削减财政支出的。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

We would expect the ionization energy to decrease, that means that sulfur has our lowest ionization energy.

我们预期电离能会降低，这就意味着硫的电离能最低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But she said it did decrease her desire to eat cabbages.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

So, as we go down a column, we see ionization energy's going to decrease.

总之，当我们沿着列往下走的时候，我们会看到电离能在降低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free."

VOA: special.2010.08.26

So, I've got ion pair formation, and I've got a huge decrease in energy because a donor is able to express that urge, an acceptor is able to express that urge.

所以我能得到形成的电子对，同时能量也大幅下降,因为失电子方要表达它的迫切，得电子方也要表达它的迫切。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"Women who had their ovaries removed had a decrease in the risk of breast cancer, a decrease in the risk of ovarian cancer and,in addition,they were less likely to die of breast cancer, less likely to die of ovarian cancer and also had an improvement in their overall survival."

VOA: special.2010.09.22

The expanding U.S.advisory role coincides with a decrease in combat operations in the months before U.S.troops are due to withdraw by the end of December 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28