1. But spoiling children with material things does little to reduce parental guilt (since parents never feel they've given enough),
    但是, 用物质的东西来宠爱孩子几乎不能减轻父母的内疚感（因为父母从不会感到他们给孩子的东西已经够了),

2. C.You insist on discussing the problems with your spouse to see how you can reduce the pressure.
    c.你坚持与你的配偶讨论并考虑你们怎样才能减轻压力。

3. But the national effort to reduce health care costs has resulted in dramatic changes in the way hospitals think.
    然而，全国范围内要求降低医疗成本的努力，导致了医院思维方式的戏剧性改变。

4. The government hopes to reduce this average to 2.1 children per woman by 2005.
    印尼政府希望到2005年的时候，每个妇女的平均生育数可下降到2.1个。

5. To reduce these seniors' risk of falling, Tinetti used multiple methods, including having an exercise teacher go to a person's home and teach balance exercises.
    为了降低这些老年人摔跤的风险，蒂内提使用了多种方法，包括请运动教练登门教授平衡练习法。

6. Thus, the direction of the meeting is a mutual attempt to reduce confrontation and achieve harmony.
    因此，会晤所向是双方共同努力减少对峙，谋求和谐。

7. To further reduce the waiting list for phones, Hungary has leased rights to a Dutch -Scandinavian group of companies to build and operate what it says will be one of the most advanced digital mobile phone systems in the world.
    为进一步减少电话待装户，匈牙利已将权利出租给一家荷兰-斯堪的纳维亚企业集团，来建造并经营一个据说是世界上最先进的数字移动电话系统。

8. All this would reduce profits and precipitate an economic crisis.
    所有这一切会降低利润并引起经济危机。

9. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
    好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。

10. Although many people assume that balance and movement problems are inevitable with age, an increasing body of evidence demonstrates that exercise can help improve balance and strength in elderly individuals and reduce their chance of falling.
    尽管许多人认为难以保持平衡和活动不便的问题随着衰老而不可避免，但越来越多的证据表明，运动有助于老年人增强平衡能力和增长力气，可减少他们摔跤的可能性。