De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.

德曼想指出的是，一个问句既是修辞型问句又是语法型问句，那么一个不能变成另一个，两种理解都有效。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And I'm going to show you an example in a 1 second, just to drive this home, but notice the characteristics. In the first two cases, the problem reduced by 1 at each step.

在前面两个例子里,每一部问题的规模缩小了,不管是迭代的还是递归的，这表明这个问题的复杂性可能是线性的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It can be removed or reduced through rituals of ablutions or just the passage of time or other sorts of ritual observances.

它可以通过沐浴仪式来移除或减少,或者随着时间的流逝而消失。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It comes from the fact that in an electrochemical cell, the cations are those that are reduced.

这来源于在电池中，正离子是被减少的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I'll give this as an aside; they reduced the size of the newspaper in 2005.

这是题外话,他们在2005年缩减了版面

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Human beings can be reduced to their movable parts much like a machine.

人类被浓缩到那些可运动的部分,就像一个机器。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You have to test it by giving the vaccine to a large population of people, and then watching and seeing if you've reduced the incidence of the disease.

这样的测试的做法只能是,给大量人群分发疫苗,接着观察和了解,这种疾病的发病率是否有所降低

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

GDP Furthermore, Reagan reduced spending as a proportion of gross domestic product and Clinton reduced it even further You have a bipartisan achievement which alas in the current circumstances it slips.

另外，里根根据,按比例削减了政府开支,到克林顿执政时，开支进一步减少了,这是两党共同努力的结果,不过可惜如今已不复存在了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The so called binary system, 1 these zeros and ones that you'd probably have some vague sense underlie all computers today actually reduced to the exact same grade school kind of math and system except with computers, 1 because it's a lot easier to use just two digits, zero and one.

所谓的二进制就是，你觉得模糊的0与,在电脑上计算,事实上可以简化为跟小学数学一样,只是在电脑上计算而已，因为它更容易，仅仅使用两个数字，0与。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.

更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑，我本来是一个人，能进行各种反思，却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We just treated the one case of an ideal gas as the temperature is reduced.

我们只是讨论了温度下降时,理想气体的行为。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Moore, who revised her poems, just the same way she ended up binding her hair, republished this poem eventually in short form, very short, where three pages were reduced to two sentences.

穆尔，以和梳理她的发型的相同方式，将这首诗进行了改编，最终以极为简短的形式重新发表了这首诗，三张纸的诗被删到只剩下两句。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

How do you know that your parents, at least one of your parents satisfies the definition? Well I've reduced the problem from am I a natural born US citizen to is one of my parents a natural born US citizen?

这是一个递归的定义，你怎么知道你的父母,至少其中一个是满足天生的美国公民,这个定义的呢？,我已经把我是一个天生的美国公民这个问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The idea is that if you spread risks they don't disappear, they're still there, but they're spread out over many people and the impact on any one person is reduced.

这种观念就是说如果你把风险分散...,风险仍然存在,并没有消失,但如果风险分散到许多人身上,那每一个人受到风险的冲击就会减少

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It occurs because blood flow gets reduced in that blood vessel and so the heart muscle, which is actively beating all the time, needs large quantities of oxygen provided by blood can't get the blood through the vessel.

发病原因是冠状动脉血流量降低,因为心肌搏动永不停歇,随时需要血液供给大量氧气,发病时血液无法正常流过血管

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选