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

• 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。
• Boil down the article to a few sentences.
  把这篇文章简缩到只有几个句子。
• 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。
• 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。
• Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
  把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。
• 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。
• He boils down red wine and uses what's left
  他把红酒熬稠后再用。
• The plums in the pan will boil down in a short time.
  锅里的梅子煮一会就变稠。
• The explanations for the rise that never came might boil down to teething troubles.
  没有出现预期的上涨，其原因可以归结为万事开头难。
• 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。