boil down

1. PHRASAL VERB-ERG （液体或食物）煮稠；把…熬稠
   When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. Boil down the article to a few sentences.
   把这篇文章简缩到只有几个句子。
9. 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
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. These facts boil down to very little significance.
    这些事实没有多大意义。
13. It would be better if you boil down the facts to a short statement.
    如果你把事实做简单的陈述会更好。
14. Please boil down these documents for me!
    请帮我把这些文档的内容归纳一下！
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. And the risk of hidden behind or to boil down to land management.
    和背后隐藏的风险，或归结为土地管理。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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？
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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？
26. The plums in the pan will boil down in a short time.
    锅里的梅子煮一会就变稠。
27. Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
    把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。
28. 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。
29. 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。
30. 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。

verb

1. cook until very little liquid is left
   1. The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time

   Synonym:    reduceconcentrate

2. be cooked until very little liquid is left
   1. The sauce should reduce to one cup

   Synonym:    reducedecoctconcentrate

3. be the essential element
   1. The proposal boils down to a compromise

   Synonym:    reducecome down