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

• 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。
• 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
• 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？
• 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。
• Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
  把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。
• 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？
• Its elements are many and do not boil down to "utility" or some cash-value equivalent.
  它由许多部分组成，人们不能只归结它为一定的功效又或者某种等同于金钱价值的存在。
• 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。
• 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。