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

Most scientists believe that its better, a better process, less affected by conflicts of interest, but still affected by politics.

大部分学者认为这是一个改进,不过虽然利益冲突的影响有所减少,却仍不免受到政治因素的影响

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We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

The idea is that if you spread risks they don't disappear, they're still there, but they're spread out over many people and the impact on any one person is reduced.

这种观念就是说如果你把风险分散...,风险仍然存在,并没有消失,但如果风险分散到许多人身上,那每一个人受到风险的冲击就会减少

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is of opposite charge and it exerts an influence, only that is minus to plus so that is going to give me a minus term here.

它具有相反的电性，所以它也会有影响，只有这个负值相对正值来说会起到减少的作用,所以这里将会引入一个负值的量。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We did not send enough soilders there. There is a policy of a small foot print.

我们的士兵不够多，我们有一个政策是要减少士兵量。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选