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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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
• The plums heaped up in the pan will boil down in a very short time.
  堆在锅里的梅子一煮就会少下去的。
• 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。
• 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。
• The plums in the pan will boil down in a short time.
  锅里的梅子煮一会就变稠。
• Please boil down these documents for me!
  请帮我把这些文档的内容归纳一下！
• He boils down red wine and uses what's left
  他把红酒熬稠后再用。