Rather than issuing a formal withdrawal order, they are reducing the force gradually by not replacing troops that cycle out.

他们没有发布正式的撤军命令，而是以不替换换走的部队的形式在逐步减少兵力。

Once drilled into the river banks, these branches help to reduce the force of the water.

一旦被插到河堤上，这些树枝可以帮助减少水流的力量。

Officials have built concrete barriers in the sea in an effort to reduce the force of waves.

官员们在海上建造了混凝土护栏，目的是减少水的冲击。

The government can only do so much to reduce the powerful gravitational forces acting on a fragmented national industry.

政府能做的只有减弱作用于这个支离破碎的民族工业的强大地心引力。

The details: the Army will reduce its forces from a high of 570,000 to around 450,000 troops.

陆军将从最高的570000减少到大约450000人。

Today, you're most likely to see the word used as a euphemism for 'firing staff', or reducing the work force within a company.

今天，大家也许很可能看到这个单词被当成‘开除某人’或者‘裁减公司成员’的委婉语。

Currently, helmets are accessed based on their ability to reduce impact forces.

MARVER：目前， 人们根据头盔减少冲击力的能力来获取头盔。

How can we use language to reduce the force and the impact of what we want to say?

我们如何使用语言来减少我们想说的话的力量和影响？

In this state, the excess charges have moved as far as possible to reduce their forces on one another.

在这种情况下，超额费用的分歧很大 可以减少彼此的力量对对方的影响。

Right now, we can demonstrate and prove that we can reduce impact forces, that we can do that better than any helmet on the market.

现在，我们可以证明我们可以减少冲击力， 我们可以比市场上的任何头盔做得更好。

When we try to drift apart in an interdependent age, all we do is build up the negative and reduce  the positive forces of interdependence.

当我们试图在一个相互依存的时代渐行渐远时，我们所做的只是增强相互依存的消极力量并减少积极力量。

Business groups and many Republicans in Congress say raising the minimum wage will force employers to reduce their work force and hurt those at the bottom of the pay scale.

企业团体和国会许多共和党人表示，提高最低薪资会迫使雇主们减少劳动力，导致薪资最低层的人受到伤害。

And they found that riders who use the more bouncy 'rising trot' actually keep their center of mass more steady when they stand — which reduces the force on the horse's back.

他们发现使用更具弹性的“起伏跑跳”法的骑士，站立时会让自身重心更稳，而这减轻了马背上的压力。

You may recall that friction is the force that opposes motion, so water reducing that force means it's now easier for you to move, hence it's more slippery when the roads are wet.

你可能还记得摩擦力是阻碍运动的力，所以水减少了这种力意味着你现在更容易移动， 因此当道路潮湿时它会更滑。

The historian was thus reduced to his last resources. Clearly if he was bound to reduce all these forces to a common value, this common value could have no measure but that of their attraction on his own mind.

历史学家因此沦为最后的资源。显然，如果他必须将所有这些力量归结为一个共同价值，那么这个共同价值只能衡量它们对他自己思想的吸引力。

All of this helps to reduce the force needed to puncture the skin.