1·The regulation is aimed to reduce deficit and protect students' and teachers' interests.
为减少亏空，维护在校师生利益，故作出此项规定。
2·The United States Congress and the president are still locked in disagreement over proposals to reduce the massive budget deficit.
美国国会与总统对减少巨额预算赤字的提议各持己见，僵持不下。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit.
10万名联邦工作人员将被解雇以减少赤字。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity.
简单的消费税，比如说，5%，就可以显著减少国家巨大的政府赤字，而且不损害生产力。
5·“I believe that we have to reduce the deficit, but that is not all we have to do, ” he said.
爱德声称：“我相信我们必须减少赤字，但这不是我们必须要做的一切。”
6·Lawmakers are at war with one another over how to reduce our deficit while increasing our quality of living, and there is no end to the debate in sight.
立法者们为如何在降低我们赤字的同时还要提高生活的质量而陷于争吵不休的混战之中，目前还看不到争论何时会有个终结。
7·But what has the US done to reduce its trade deficit?
但是，美国为降低他们的贸易赤字又做了些什么呢？
8·Republicans have criticized the proposal, saying it does little to reduce the deficit.
共和党人批评这项议案，说它在减少赤字方面做得太少。
9·But that would be a good thing for the United States, since it would make our goods more competitive and reduce our trade deficit.
但是那对美国来说反而是一件好事，因为这样会让我们的产品更富有竞争力，并且可以减少我们的贸易赤字。
10·Such anxiety is likely to be bigger when public debts are worryingly high because taxpayers judge that the need to reduce the deficit will soon hurt their finances.
当公共债务大到令人担心时，这样消费者焦虑会更大，因为纳税人认为赤字减少的要求会快速地损害他们的财经状况。