The researchers say if hospitals do these things, they will reduce medication errors, as well as the costs related to these mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

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

OK. And then the exponentials, as you saw is when typically I reduce the problem of one size into two or more sub-problems of a smaller size.

好，然后说到指数级，正如你所见，典型的例子是,我讲一个问题分解成为,两个更小规模的子问题。

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

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

This in turn could reduce the number of undernourished people by as much as seventeen percent.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

And he argued that we act so as to reduce dissonance.

他认为我们会通过某种行为来减少失调。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And they act as a windbreak, so they reduce heating costs in winter.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Now, figure in the fact that smoking is playing a role, physical activity is playing a role, still just changing fruit and vegetable consumption potentially could reduce heart disease worldwide by this much: stroke by 19% and some cancers by as much as 20%.

实际上吸烟和运动都对此有影响,即使将这些因素都考虑进去,仅仅改变水果和蔬菜的摄入量仍然能,在全球范围内减少这么多的心脏病得病率,中风减少19%而某些癌症减少达20%

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It also helps to reduce symptoms such as shaking and slowness of movement.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

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

NATO commanders plan to reduce his influence as the chairman of the provincial council by making the local government more effective.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

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

"And it brings Security Council agreement on a broad framework for action to reduce nuclear dangers as we work toward that goal."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The report calls for stronger steps to be taken by advanced economies to reduce carbon emissions, seen as the main cause of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

He especially singled out the United States as a country that has not done its share to help reduce the effects of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The State Council said the country will reduce its "carbon intensity" by 40 to 45 percent by the year 2020,as compared to 2005 emission levels.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Its main goal is to use agriculture-based development to end hunger,reduce poverty and food insecurity,as well as increase opportunities for Africa to become a food exporter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"We can work with the Russians, as the two countries with by far the largest nuclear stockpiles, to continue to reduce our dependence on nuclear weapons."

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

So we are determined to work as we can with countries from around the world to reduce the threat of terrorism to all innocent civilians anywhere in the world."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"Companies like Hyundai and Suzuki are basing production of some of their models only in India, which gives them volumes, so helps reduce cost for domestic sales and exports as well,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

On CBS television's "Face the Nation" program,Sunday Republican Senator John McCain was asked whether Iraqi security forces are capable of handling these types of attacks, as U.S.military forces reduce their presence in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

This report is about the latest effort to reduce the record and rising casualty levels among U.S.troops in Afghanistan, as President Barack Obama considers sending tens of thousands more troops into harm's way.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"The prediction is that in the next 20 years to 30 years, if the situation continues to get worse, the productivity from the agricultural sector and from subsistence farming in Africa, the production would reduce by as much as 50 percent,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"I think that by having people adopt a healthy lifestyle, both from a medical standpoint as well as nutritional and cognitive stimulation standpoint, that we can reduce the incidence of cognitive decline, which will be proof that these factors are, in fact,important."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17