boil down
英 [bɔɪl daʊn]
美 [bɔɪl daʊn]
(液体或食物)煮稠; 把…熬稠
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.- He boils down red wine and uses what's left...
他把红酒熬稠后再用。 - 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。
- He boils down red wine and uses what's left...
英英释义
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- The sauce should reduce to one cup
- be the essential element
- The proposal boils down to a compromise
双语例句
- Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。 - Third, the problems we face in China's economy can all boil down to structural problems, crude mode of growth and institutional problems.
第三,中国经济发展中的问题,说到底是经济结构问题、经济增长方式问题和经济体制问题。 - 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。 - 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。 - Boil down the article to a few sentences.
把这篇文章简缩到只有几个句子。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Please boil down these documents for me!
请帮我把这些文档的内容归纳一下! - 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