「if we had to boil it down to three basic personality traits, 」 i asked my husband, 「what would they be?」
「如果我们要给予他三种基本的美德」我问我的丈夫说:「他们应该是哪些呢?」
there is a sound scientific basis for the recommendation but, when you boil it down to a one-line exhortation, the subtleties are lost.
该提议有一个合理的科学基础,然而,当你将其概括为一句规劝,细节部分就都失去了。
while i haven’t read the book yet, i’ve been following the blog since its inception, and to boil it down to its essence: men are not quite sure how to be anymore.
尽管我还没读过该书,但那个博客自设立以来我就一直在跟蹤着,并把其中的内容浓缩为以下这一点:对于如何做男人,他们也犯迷糊了。
to boil it down to the briefest summary, american characteristics are the product of response to an unusually competitive situation combined with unusual opportunity.
把美国人的性格归根结底,就是相应于非常的机遇的非常的竞争环境做出反应的结果。
but one should never try to boil it down to 「the fateful hammer of life, 」 etc.
但是,决不要试图把它归结成为「命运的音锤」等等。
read through this passage of prose and then boil it down to a hundred words.
请读这篇散文,然后将其概括为一百字。
read through this passage and then boil it down to about two hundred words.
把这段文字读一遍,然后把它缩成二百字左右。