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
- He boils down red wine and uses what's left
他把红酒熬稠后再用。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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？ - Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。 - These facts boil down to very little significance.
这些事实没有多大意义。 - 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。