Along with protecting local Afghans and reducing violence are new efforts to cut off the funding of the Taliban and other Afghan insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Successive approximation, Newton-Raphson was one nice example, but there's a whole class of things that get closer and closer, reducing your errors as you go along.

逐渐逼近,牛顿迭代是一个很好的例子,随着你不断的时行下去,你会不断的离结果越来越近，逐渐地减少误差。

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And so I think we need to take action as soon as possible to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

所以我觉得我们需要尽快开始行动，减少二氧化碳排放。

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This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Separating our water supply from sewage and learning how to do wastewater treatment was a really important part of reducing infectious diseases.

把净水和污水分开,以及学会污水处理的方法,是减少感染性疾病传播方法中的重要部分

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Where the world's poorest countries are concerned, the G20 says that narrowing the development gap and reducing poverty are integral to a broader objective of achieving strong,sustainable and balanced growth.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

You see, if they give the-- if they merely give shares to the CEO without increasing your shares, then you are being diluted because it's raising the total and it's reducing the ratio.

如果他们仅仅给首席执行官股份,而不给你们增发股份的话,那么你们的股份会因总数增加而被摊薄,比例有所降低

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It wants parents to reduce the risk of choking by first cutting hot dogs in half lengthwise, cutting grapes into quarters and reducing the size of other foods that can get stuck in children's throats.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

And what they're doing as they hunt, is they're reducing the search space.

发现bugs的方法，当他们寻找bug的时候。

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The Obama administration has made clear that it wants to "reset" relations with Russia, so the two former Cold War foes can cooperate on Iran, fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan,and reducing their vast nuclear arsenals.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

That had a remarkable effect on reducing transmission of infectious diseases, in doctor's offices and hospitals.

这显著的减少了,在医生的办公室和医院内部,感染性疾病的传播

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It will do that,he says, by reducing the cost of computers and increasing the number of people who search the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

But Mister Zundt says reducing air pollution and acid rain will reduce respiratory illnesses for people in the city.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Some college presidents and others have suggested that a lower drinking age could have the effect of reducing alcohol abuse.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

The group has simpler ideas -- like reducing water use at schools and other buildings in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Getting plenty of sleep, reducing stress and eating a diet high in vitamins and minerals can also help.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

President Obama aims to defeat the Taliban by sending more troops and development aid to Afghanistan while reducing troop strength in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

He says major progress has been made since nineteen seventy in reducing deaths of mothers and children.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The Ford Foundation says the goals include strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and increasing international cooperation.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

We are planning on becoming carbon-neutral and,in fact,reducing our footprint by forty percent by twenty twenty-five.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

They said this was likely a result of the legal drinking age being raised to twenty-one and other policy changes aimed at reducing underage drinking.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Aspirin competes with many other medicines for reducing pain and high body temperature.

VOA: special.2010.12.14

The Lorena was very good at reducing smoke and warming homes.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

"Just helping women farmers have the same access to inputs and control of resources that male farmers have would really do a lot in terms of improving agriculture productivity, reducing hunger and malnutrition."

VOA: special.2011.03.22

"We estimate in WHO that over thirty million lives can be saved in the next ten years by simple measures -- reducing the level of salt by fifteen to twenty percent, reducing the amount of tobacco, and increasing the number of people who are at risk of a heart attack and stroke to be on simple preventive treatment."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

It is called the initiative for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, where local population would be paid to protect forests.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

But this year, large parts of rural India have been hit by drought, reducing incomes and raising food prices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Oxfam's Nisha Agarwal says the project could be a powerful way of introducing transparency, reducing bureaucracy and reaching the poor effectively.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Collecting patient data or ordering drugs and lab tests using handheld devices can be very effective in reducing errors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Now is the time for us to lead,". One of the bill's main provisions calls for reducing carbon dioxide and other emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27