newspapers wanted to reduce costs
报纸想要降低成本
If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.
如果该地区认为作业对其学生的学业成绩不重要，它就应该采取措施减少或取消作业，而不是让作业几乎不计成绩。
But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.
但我们现在拥有足够的知识，可以减少许多曾威胁早期人类生存的风险，并改善后代人的生活状况。
Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.
科学家发现，尽管我们容易产生迅速的过度反应，但如果花点时间思考我们可能会如何反应，就能减少甚至消除我们快速、本能反应带来的负面影响。
In order to "change lives for the better" and reduce "dependency", George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the "upfront work search" scheme.
为了实现“改善人们的生活”并减少“依赖性”，英国财政大臣乔治·奥斯本推出了“提前求职”计划。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。