condense

verb

/kənˈdens/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they condense	/kənˈdens/ /kənˈdens/
he / she / it condenses	/kənˈdensɪz/ /kənˈdensɪz/
past simple condensed	/kənˈdenst/ /kənˈdenst/
past participle condensed	/kənˈdenst/ /kənˈdenst/
-ing form condensing	/kənˈdensɪŋ/ /kənˈdensɪŋ/

[intransitive, transitive] to change from a gas into a liquid; to make a gas change into a liquid（由气体）冷凝；（使气体）凝结
- condense (into something) Steam condenses into water when it cools.蒸汽冷却时凝结为水。
- condense something (into something) The steam was condensed rapidly by injecting cold water into the cylinder.由于汽缸中注入了冷水，蒸汽迅速凝结了。
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Topics Physics and chemistryc2
[intransitive, transitive] condense (something) if a liquid condenses or you condense it, it becomes thicker and stronger because it has lost some of its water（使）浓缩，变浓，变稠 synonym reduce
- Condense the soup by boiling it for several minutes.煮几分钟把汤熬浓。
[transitive] condense something (into something) to put something such as a piece of writing into fewer words; to put a lot of information into a small space简缩；压缩（文字、信息等）
- The article was condensed into just two pages.这篇文章被简缩成仅两页。
- The author has condensed a great deal of material into just 100 pages.作者在短短 100 页中浓缩了大量信息。

词源late Middle English: from Old French condenser or Latin condensare, from condensus ‘very thick’, from con- ‘completely’ + densus ‘dense’.