Successive approximation, Newton-Raphson was one nice example, but there's a whole class of things that get closer and closer, reducing your errors as you go along.

逐渐逼近,牛顿迭代是一个很好的例子,随着你不断的时行下去,你会不断的离结果越来越近，逐渐地减少误差。

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And so I think we need to take action as soon as possible to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

所以我觉得我们需要尽快开始行动，减少二氧化碳排放。

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Separating our water supply from sewage and learning how to do wastewater treatment was a really important part of reducing infectious diseases.

把净水和污水分开,以及学会污水处理的方法,是减少感染性疾病传播方法中的重要部分

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You see, if they give the-- if they merely give shares to the CEO without increasing your shares, then you are being diluted because it's raising the total and it's reducing the ratio.

如果他们仅仅给首席执行官股份,而不给你们增发股份的话,那么你们的股份会因总数增加而被摊薄,比例有所降低

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But the fact that reducing cholesterol is considered good for you in the first place, depends on these kinds of studies on population intake to know how much cholesterol people are eating and then link it to reports of heart disease, or cancer, or whatever the health outcome is.

但减少胆固醇这个事实,首先对你来说是好的,依据这些关于总体摄入量的研究可以知道,人们摄入胆固醇的多少,关系到心脏疾病,或癌症或其他健康问题

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And what they're doing as they hunt, is they're reducing the search space.

发现bugs的方法，当他们寻找bug的时候。

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That had a remarkable effect on reducing transmission of infectious diseases, in doctor's offices and hospitals.

这显著的减少了,在医生的办公室和医院内部,感染性疾病的传播

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