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Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process.

技术专家所思考的对象的许多特征和质量不能简化为明确的语言描述；它们在大脑中通过视觉及非语言的过程处理。

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He thought bestowal could be reduced to appraisal.

他认为赋予可以被简化为评价。

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Other things including high fat diets and reduced physical activity are also believed to be pushing the numbers upward.

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De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.

德曼想指出的是，一个问句既是修辞型问句又是语法型问句，那么一个不能变成另一个，两种理解都有效。

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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。

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Africa is too complex, too diverse, to be reduced to a handful of phrases.

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Graves, Hunt's attorney, had earlier asked that the charges be reduced to a misdemeanor.

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For many farmers, the goodness of manure could not be reduced to a white powder.

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