"Defense Secretary Gates has long made reducing Afghan civilian casualties a top priority, and Morrell says there has been a 40 percent reduction so far this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A new government report notes that very little progress has been made in reducing what are called health care-associated infections.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

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

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.19

A government report notes that little progress has been made in reducing what are called health care-associated infections.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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

In Detroit,Michigan, the two big dailies are reducing home delivery to three days a week.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

In a mild case, simply reducing fluids may be all that the person needs.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

The flowerpots are made by reducing chicken feathers to a powder.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

So,do they serve a purpose in reducing physical pain?

VOA: special.2009.08.18

"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

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

Mr.Orban has yet to unveil details on how he wants to finance his economic plans, which include reducing unemployment from a 17-year high.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

"Reducing salt in the food supply needs to be a gradual process for a couple of reasons."

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The salary and pension cuts, plus a two percent increase in sales tax are aimed at reducing the country's deficit by four percent this year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The Obama administration has pledged a provisional target of reducing greenhouse gasses by about 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020 with deeper cuts after that.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

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

Now,a new study says reducing fats isn't enough.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The six nations reached an agreement in September 2005, creating a framework for gradually reducing the North's arsenal, while normalizing its relations with Japan,the United States, and South Korea.Since then,however, North Korea has conducted two nuclear weapons tests.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Pope Benedict denounced what he called "the clouds of evil" over Africa that have brought war and ethnic rivalry, reducing the poor to slavery and depriving "future generations of the resources needed to create a more solid and just society."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"What we've proven to be useful and what does work is having a person in a stressed state, and then reducing that stress because it's that contrast is what motivates a person to cooperate, what motivates a person to start talking.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17