We wanted to reduce the cost of heating and air-conditioning.

我们想减少供暖与空调的开支。

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Protective gloves reduce the absorption of chemicals through the skin.

防护手套可以减少皮肤对化学物质的吸收。

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Aspirin should help reduce the fever.

阿司匹林能够退烧。

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

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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。

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Linear algorithms tend to be things where, at one pass-through, you reduce the problem by a constant amount by one. If you reduce it by two, 1 it's going to be the same thing.

有问题么？,线性复杂度的算法，当进行了一个,常量级步数的操作的时候，将问题的规模缩小了一个。

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Most small breweries do their own bottling, which raises the revenue but tends to reduce the gross profit.

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MEPs argued that re-use of animals helped reduce the total number of animals used.

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Taxing the returns to capital will obviously reduce the amount of capital flowing in.

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