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 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。
• Boil down the passage to about two hundred words.
  把这段文字压缩到二百字左右。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 facts boil down to very little significance.
  这些事实没有多大意义。
• 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。
• 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。