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

• He wrote a lot in his letter, which can boil down to it that he felt very sorry for his absence.
  他在信里写了很多，归结为一句话，他为他没有能来表示歉意。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most of the crimes may boil down to a question of money.
  大多数犯罪归结起来可以说都是金钱问题。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• And in a world where many high-stakes issues fundamentally boil down to science, this is clearly a problem.
  在一个任何高风险问题从基础上归结为科学的社会，这显然是一个问题。
• 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。
• 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。