reduce to tears
If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
The attentions of the media reduced her to tears.
由于引起了媒体注意,她伤心地流下了眼泪。
reduces , reducing , reduced
If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree.
It reduces the risks of heart disease.
这降低了罹患心脏病的风险。
Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent.
消费被减少了25。
The reduced consumer demand is also affecting company profits.
消费需求的减少也正在影响公司利润。
If someone is reduced to a weaker or inferior state, they become weaker or inferior as a result of something that happens to them.
They were reduced to extreme poverty.
他们沦落到极度贫困的地步。
If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing.
He was reduced to begging for a living.
他不得不以乞讨为生。
If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form.
All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble.
镇上所有的建筑都变成了瓦砾。
If you reduce liquid when you are cooking, or if it reduces, it is boiled in order to make it less in quantity and thicker.
Boil the liquid in a small saucepan to reduce it by half.
用小炖锅煮,收一半汤汁。