But life, in the emphatical sense, and par excellence, is reduced to much narrower limits. From this species of life it is unavoidable that we should strike off the whole of the interval that is spent in sleep; and thus, as a general rule, the natural day of twenty-four hours is immediately reduced to sixteen.英文原著 · 《Thoughts on Man》
"Do you know?" I said to him. "I wager that she does not know that you are a cadet. She thinks you are an officer reduced to the ranks" . "Maybe so. What is that to me!" . he said absently. "No, I am only saying so" . "But, do you know that you have made her terribly angry to-day?英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
"Do you suppose," he said slowly, after a pause--"do you think it is possible that the other child--the child I never cease thinking of, I believe--could be--could POSSIBLY be reduced to any such condition as the poor little soul next door?"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
March was wearing away tediously. The river was not yet open, and the belated boats with needed supplies were moored far down the river. Many of the reduced settlers were dependent on the meat the Indians brought them for sustenance. The mud made the roads almost impassable; for the frost lay in a solid bed six inches below the surface, and all above that was semi- liquid muck. Snow and rain alternated, and the frightful disease did not cease its ravages.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
When supper was finished, and the tea-kettle was pushed back on the crane, and the backlog had been reduced to a heap of fiery embers, then was the time for listening to sailor yarns and ghost and witch legends. The wonder seems somehow to have faded out of those tales of eld since the gleam of red-hot coals died away from the hearthstone. The shutting up of the great fireplaces and the introduction of stoves marks an era; the abdication of shaggy Romance and the enthronement of elegant Commonplace-- sometimes, alas! the opposite of elegant--at the New England fireside.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The change involved a great deal of work. "Boarders" signified a large house, many beds, and an indefinite number of people. Such piles of sewing accumulated before us! A sewing-bee, volunteered by the neighbors, reduced the quantity a little, and our child- fingers had to take their part. But the seams of those sheets did look to me as if they were miles long!英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Paying a bigger fine in exchange for reduced jail time?美剧 · 《Billions》
And even the mightiest T. Rexes were reduced to fucking skeletons.美剧 · 《Billions》
But the way it still gets told, that night end of shift, every swinging dick at the station went back to that bar with nightsticks, reduced those fucking bikers to smudge marks on the floor.美剧 · 《Billions》
One reason is that news networks have reduced the number of their foreign bureaus by half. One reason is that news networks have reduced the number of their foreign bureaus by half.演讲 · 《How the news distorts our worldview ~ Alisa Miller》