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boil down

英 [bɔɪl daʊn]

美 [bɔɪl daʊn]

(液体或食物)煮稠; 把…熬稠

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柯林斯词典

  • PHRASAL VERB-ERG (液体或食物)煮稠;把…熬稠
    When youboil downa liquid or food, or when itboils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
    1. He boils down red wine and uses what's left...
      他把红酒熬稠后再用。
    2. 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。

英英释义

verb

  • cook until very little liquid is left
    1. The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
    Synonym:reduceconcentrate
  • be cooked until very little liquid is left
    1. The sauce should reduce to one cup
    Synonym:reducedecoctconcentrate
  • be the essential element
    1. The proposal boils down to a compromise
    Synonym:reducecome down

双语例句

  • So in an uncertain economy, staying Agile may well boil down to reaffirming trust relationships.
    所以在一个不确定的经济环境中,坚持敏捷也可能再次肯定信任关系。
  • 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?
  • Opinions boil down to a simple premise: If you are a tech-head you will hate it, if you are everyone else you will love it.
    所有评价可以简单归结为一个前提:如果你是一位电子产品迷你会讨厌它,如果你不在此列你会爱上它。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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?
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • These facts boil down to very little significance.
    这些事实没有多大意义。
  • Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
    把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。