boil down

美 [bɔɪl daʊn]英 [bɔɪl daʊn]
  • 把…熬稠;(液体或食物)煮稠
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boil down

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    PHRASAL VERB-ERG (液体或食物)煮稠;把…熬稠
    When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.

    He boils down red wine and uses what's left...

    他把红酒熬稠后再用。

verb

1
cook until very little liquid is left
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Synonym: reduce concentrate
2
be cooked until very little liquid is left
The sauce should reduce to one cup
Synonym: reduce decoct concentrate
3
be the essential element
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Synonym: reduce come down

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  1. This may seem a large quantity of mushrooms , but they do boil down considerably .

    这些蘑菇看上去很多,但一煮就没多少了。

  2. I know there 'd be a kettle on the boil down in the kitchen .

    我知道厨房里总有一壶烧开的水。

  3. In practice , it may boil down to this : Will China change ?

    事实上,这可以归结成一个问题:中国会改变吗?

  4. All these issues boil down to one point & the distribution of power .

    这些问题归结到一点,就是权力的归属和分配。

  5. The problems with database size boil down to a more fundamental problem , however .

    然而,数据库大小的问题还会引起更重大的问题。

  6. These essentially boil down to performance , cost , and complexity .

    这些关键原因可归结为性能、成本及复杂性等方面。

  7. And the risk of hidden behind or to boil down to land management .

    和背后隐藏的风险,或归结为土地管理。

  8. Boil down the passage to about two hundred words .

    把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。

  9. Most of the crimes may boil down to a question of money .

    大多数犯罪归结起来可以说都是金钱问题。

  10. These facts boil down to very little significance .

    这些事实没有多大意义。

  11. They boil down to one phrase : freedom of religious belief .

    归纳为一句话就是:宗教信仰自由。

  12. What it all seemed to boil down to was money .

    这一切归结起来似乎就是一个“钱”字。

  13. Most political rows and scandals boil down to oil or gas .

    政客们常争得面红耳赤,互相揭短,为的也无非就是石油和天然气。

  14. In all , they boil down to ten problems , or ten major relationships .

    综合起来,一共有十个问题,也就是十大关系。

  15. It would be better if you boil down the facts to a short statement .

    如果你把事实做简单的陈述会更好。

  16. These problems boil down to how to evaluate the quality of the results from text clustering algorithms .

    这些问题归结到底都是一个文本聚类效果的评价问题。

  17. When an analyst models activities , they will boil down to human tasks or processing a system .

    当分析员建模活动时,他们通常将之对应到人工任务或系统处理。

  18. really challenging things that boil down to a lot of violence and death in the world

    不会真正地去挑战那些在世界上造成许多暴力和死亡的事物

  19. Boil down the article to a few sentences .

    把这篇文章简缩到只有几个句子。

  20. Many of the problem solving strategies in the real world may boil down to the optimization process on complex objectives .

    现实世界中的问题求解有一大类都可以归结为复杂目标的优化。

  21. SDRs are complex but they boil down to the international creation of money .

    特别提款权很复杂,但归结起来就是国际性的货币创造。

  22. Boil down the books on walking and you 're left with some key tips :

    总结这些关于行走的书,可得出一些要点:

  23. Please boil down these documents for me !

    请帮我把这些文档的内容归纳一下!

  24. The plums in the pan will boil down in a short time .

    锅里的梅子煮一会就变稠。

  25. We build prototypes for several reasons , all of which largely boil down to cost .

    我们因为一些原因构建产品原型,这些原因绝大多数出于成本的考虑。

  26. On Marx 's Proposition of " All Productive Forces Boil Down to Natural Forces "

    马克思论一切生产力都归结为自然力命题分析

  27. You can use several different techniques , but all boil down to " defer work as long as possible . "

    您可以使用几种不同的技术,但是所有技术都归结于“尽可能地延迟工作。”

  28. Or reduce , they boil down to a life of coquettish games .

    还是缩小它,都不过是向生活撒娇。

  29. I think , learning English can boil down to three simple ingredients : persistence , proper ways and good teachers .

    我,学习英语能总结为三个简单的因素:,的方法和好的老师。

  30. Is it possible to boil down the messages of all your poems into a single sentence or two ?

    有无可能把你所有的诗中的信息用一两句话来归纳?