(noun.) loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; 'a doctor supervised her reducing'.
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双语例句
As the magnet recedes from the coil, it carries lines of force away with it, this time reducing the number of the lines which cut the coil. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Some chemical and other processes for reducing ores have been referred to in the Chapter on Metallurgy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Reducing my speed I circled and came to the ground at the feet of the astonished Zodangan. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
By reducing the rate of interest, therefore, from ten to five per cent. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
What I would direct then, is that you commence at once reducing baggage to the very lowest possible standard. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The agglomerated product must be porous so as to afford access of the furnace-reducing gases to the ore. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
As is well known, the Hudson River, for the length of Manhattan Island, is approximately a mile wide, reducing in width at the Palisades north of Hoboken. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
I took charge, reducing the speed to about twelve miles an hour, and brought the train of seven cars to her destination at the Grand Trunk junction safely. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
I soon saw that he was reducing my size. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Increase in temperature therefore introduces three elements of disturbance, all of which act in the same direction of reducing the speed. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
For cheapening the cost of buttonholes, and reducing the hand labor, various buttonhole machines and attachments to sewing machines have been devised. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.