Research has shown that just three rows of trees near poultry houses can reduce the release of dust and ammonia.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

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

Plus, it removes unnecessary cars from the road, which of course will reduce pollution.

另外，它减少了路面上多余的车辆，当然这样可以减轻污染。

地铁的好处 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Gemini's flight director decided to reduce the use of power on the spacecraft, instead of ending the flight early.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

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

She also says abusers may simply change their method of exercising control, to try to reduce their chances of getting caught.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

They also promised to try to reduce the size of their government debt in relation to their economy by twenty sixteen.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The purpose of sex is to reduce excitation, to annul desire.

性的目的在于将刺激减少的普通欲望的程度。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They said turmeric also has been shown to reduce evidence of damage in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

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

The researchers said turmeric has been shown to reduce evidence of damage in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

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

Researchers at the University of Michigan say a substance developed from the spices could reduce the possibility of breast tumors.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

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

Some doctors say the new guidelines will reduce women's chances of needless treatments, invasive tests and harm, including psychological harm.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

If you stop and be aware of your breath, it would reduce the likelihood of going to have the spiral feeling like that. -Thank you.

如果停下来，留意呼吸，就能避免有不断恶化,感觉的可能性，谢谢你。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

We've found that stimulation, electrical stimulation deep in the brain can help patients that have Parkinson's Disease and can reduce the tremors and loss of muscle control that many patients with Parkinson's Disease use.

我们已经发现,这种脑部深层的电刺激,可以缓解帕金森氏症患者的症状,如震颤和肌肉丧失控制,许多帕金森氏症患者都使用这种疗法

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

CPR,or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, can save a life and reduce the risk of brain damage from loss of oxygen.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

You reduce a lot of the health risks, if you exercise often.

如果你经常运动的话，它会帮你降低许多健康问题的风险。

It's important 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The U.N.report was based,in part, on one hundred ten national reports on action taken to reduce or stop the loss of biodiversity.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

One of the hypotheses that was being tested in this particular study was that a low-fat diet would reduce a woman's risk for breast cancer.

其中一个,在研究中被检验的假设是,低脂膳食,有助于降低妇女患乳腺癌的风险

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now,a new study shows that it can also reduce a man's risk of getting human papillomavirus, or HPV.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Well, if we see that our death is inevitable and we really internalize that fact, perhaps that would reduce the badness of it.

如果我们清楚死去无可避免,并且真正承认这个事实，也许这样会减少它的坏处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The new law will reduce the most that borrowers must repay each year from fifteen percent of their income to ten percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

All right. So again, what I've been asking us to think about are various aspects of death that might contribute to either increase or perhaps in certain ways reduce somewhat the badness of death.

好了，再一次，我们要考虑的是,死亡的各种,可能导致增加或者,在某些方面多少减少死亡坏处的方面。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Is that something that increases the badness of death, ? or does it reduce its significance somewhat?

这是否是某种增加了死亡坏处的事物，或者是否多少减小了些死亡的重要性？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For any given level of return, you can reduce the risk; for any given level of risk, you can increase the return; sounds pretty good.

给定回报率,可以降低风险,给定风险水平,可以提高回报率,听上去不错

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选