1881 1891 1901 1905 For increase of wages: 61 27 29 32 Against reduction of wages: 10 11 4 5 For reduction in hours: 3 5 7 5 Recognition of Union: 6 14 28 31英文原著 · 《The Armies of Labor》
-- * Reduction (`reduccion') was the Spanish name for a missionary establishment. --
There they built up the system with which their name is linked for ever -- the system which for two hundred years was able to hold together wandering Indian tribes, restless as Arabs, suspicious above every other race of men -- and which to-day has disappeared, leaving nothing of a like nature in all the world.英文原著 · 《A Vanished Arcadia》
To be sure it cannot be denied but that this necessary article of utility in the photographic art has undergone a sad deterioration in quality owing to the increasing demand and great reduction in price-- the plates of the present day being by no means so heavily coated with silver as formerly--but the complaint alluded to is not predicated so much upon the thinness of silver as upon a mysterious something which has conferred upon the plates the epithet of not good.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
The peculiarly sweet-toned bell which calls the parishioners of St. John's together every Sabbath is, I believe, the same that formerly hung in the belfry of the old Queen's Chapel. If so, the bell has a history of its own. It was brought from Louisburg at the time of the reduction of that place in 1745, and given to the church by the officers of the New Hampshire troops.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
Only one small voice broke the stillness. "Oh, the feelin' man! He should git a reduction o' rent for sic a display o' proper speerit. I'll mind Mr. Hornbut to let auld Sylvester ken o't."
Which he did, and would have got a thrashing for his pains had not Cyril Gilbraith thrown him out of the parsonage before the angry cleric could lay hands upon him.英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
As the physician repeated these lines, a flash of intelligence seemed to revive in the invalid's eye--sunk again--again struggled, and he spoke more intelligibly than before, and in the tone of one eager to say something which he felt would escape him unless said instantly. "A question of death-bed, a question of death-bed, doctor--a reduction EX CAPITE LECTI--Withering against Wilibus--about the MORBUS SONTICUS. I pleaded the cause for the pursuer--I, and--and--why, I shall forget my own name--I, and--he that was the wittiest and the best-humoured man living--"英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
Wow! You could've been a great gymnast, if you'd had money, coaches, and a breast reduction.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》