1·The United States reduced its main bank rate ten days ago.
美国10天前降低了其主要银行利率。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Water absorption is greatly reduced; consequently runoff is increased, resulting in accelerated erosion rates.
吸水性大大降低了；因此，径流增加，导致了侵蚀率的增加。
3·Technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever—and therefore possible on a much larger scale.
技术已经降低了交易成本，使得共享资产比以往更便宜、更容易——因此，在扩大共享资产的范围是可以实现的。
4·Leslie worries that the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for aimless adventures.
莱斯利担心，互联网的兴起以及其他社会和技术方面的变化已经降低了我们对没有目的的冒险的兴趣。
5·The team found that exercise reduced the speed of rapid eye movements by about 8%, preventing their ability to capture new visual information.
研究小组发现，运动降低了约8%的快速眼球运动移动速度，阻碍其发挥捕捉新的视觉信息的能力。