condense

verb

1. （由气体）冷凝；（使气体）凝结
   to change from a gas into a liquid; to make a gas change into a liquid
   1. Steam condenses into water when it cools.
      蒸汽冷却时凝结为水。
   2. 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。
2. （使）浓缩，变浓，变稠
   if a liquid condenses or you condense it, it becomes thicker and stronger because it has lost some of its water
   1. Condense the soup by boiling it for several minutes.
      煮几分钟把汤熬浓。
3. 简缩，压缩（文字、信息等）
   to put sth such as a piece of writing into fewer words; to put a lot of information into a small space
   1. The article was condensed into just two pages.
      这篇文章被简缩成两页。
   2. 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。

1. VERB 压缩,精简(尤指文章或讲话)
   If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
   1. We have learnt how to condense serious messages into short, self-contained sentences...
      我们已经学会了如何把重要的信息压缩成简短独立的句子。
   2. The English translation may have been condensed into a single more readable book.
      英译本可能被压缩成了更具可读性的单行本。
2. V-ERG (使)冷凝;(使)凝结
   When a gas or vapour condenses, or is condensed, it changes into a liquid.
   1. Water vapour condenses to form clouds...
      水蒸气凝结形成云。
   2. The compressed gas is cooled and condenses into a liquid...
      压缩气体经冷却凝结成液态。
   3. As the air rises it becomes colder and moisture condenses out of it.
      随着空气上升，其温度降低，凝结出水分。

1. We have learnt how to condense serious messages into short, self-contained sentences
   我们已经学会了如何把重要的信息压缩成简短独立的句子。
2. The English translation may have been condensed into a single more readable book.
   英译本可能被压缩成了更具可读性的单行本。
3. Water vapour condenses to form clouds
   水蒸气凝结形成云。
4. The compressed gas is cooled and condenses into a liquid
   压缩气体经冷却凝结成液态。
5. As the air rises it becomes colder and moisture condenses out of it.
   随着空气上升，其温度降低，凝结出水分。
6. Condense the mixture by boiling off some of the liquid.
   通过煮沸蒸发掉一些液体使混合液变浓。
7. The tonofilaments condense into bundles and become attached to desmosomes.
   张力细丝集中成束，并附着于桥粒上。
8. When the glass bottle containing water and water vapor is placed in a mixture of dry ice and alcohol, the sudden cold will make the water vapor condense into ice crystals.
   当装有水和水蒸气的玻璃瓶放进干冰和酒精的混合物中的时候，猝冷就会使得水蒸气凝结成冰晶体。
9. The guide plate be installed as can change direction three times before the steam enters the condense pipe.
   导流板被安装成为能使蒸汽进入冷凝管之前改变方向三次。
10. It will boil the stuff and collect the gas and condense it.
    我们把混合物煮沸并收集气体然后冷凝。
11. New findings show that the giant clouds of dust and gas that pervade the universe, out of which form all of the stars and other assorted celestial bodies, depend on magnetism to condense.
    新的发现显示：遍布宇宙的尘埃和气体云团依靠磁力来凝缩，形成了恒星和其他各种不同的天体。
12. I have a natural impulse to condense.
    我总有一种天然的冲动去提炼。
13. You take that gas phase mixture, and you condense it in your condenser.
    然后用这新得到的气相混合物，在冷凝器中冷凝。
14. We can condense gas into liquid.
    我们可以把气体压缩成液体。
15. Very small solid particles around which the vapor can condense must be present.
    必须有很小的固体颗粒，水汽可以围绕它们发生凝结。
16. Water may condense under impermeable materials and cause corrosion of metal parts of the mower.
    水可能会在不透水的材料上冷凝并造成割草机的金属部件锈蚀。
17. Does the universe condense and expand periodically? Torturous questions, to me.
    宇宙是不是有周期地凝聚和膨胀？
18. In this example, we condense three rules with identical declarations into one.
    在这个例子中，我们把三个相同的规则精简为一个。
19. The steam produced in vaporize pan reached the condense pipe through guide plate.
    在蒸发锅中发生的蒸汽经过导流板装置到达冷凝管。
20. If you lower the temperature, you condense and get the liquid.
    如果降低温度，气体凝结得到液体。
21. The very features created to both protect and condense data can inadvertently complicate things.
    每一个保护和压缩数据的功能添加都会在不经意间使事情变得复杂。
22. If the pressure gets too high they have sprays that will condense the bubble in the pressuriser.
    如果压力太高了，这会有喷雾剂，会压缩增压器的气泡。
23. It also can be used to condense the pulp and extract the black liquor and other processing treatment.
    该机还可用于浆料浓缩、黑液的提取等工艺处理。
24. No you can not condense or delete your nodes.
    不，您不可以合并或删除您的节点。
25. Then I'm going to have to sort of, uh, condense this.
    那我得把这个材料浓缩一下了。
26. However, you could change it to condense log files.
    然而，你可以修改它来压缩日志文件。
27. We recounted in detail how dense, cool molecular clouds condense into protostars.
    我们十分详细地讨论了浓密的冷分子云如何凝聚成原恒星。
28. You can condense milk by boiling away much of the water in it.
    煮去牛奶中大部分的水分可使它浓缩。
29. Of course, it would be better if, through discussion, you could condense it in some places.
    当然，如果大家讨论当中能够在一些地方压缩点篇幅，那更好了。
30. Astronomers have argued for years about how stars condense out of the diffuse clouds of dust and gas called nebulas.
    由尘埃和气体构成的云团被称为星云。有关恒星如何从呈弥漫状态的星云凝缩而来，天文学家们争论了很多年。

  shorten abbreviate abridge condense【导航词义：缩短，节略】

  shorten v. 缩短，（使）变短

〔辨析〕指压缩文章、著作等的篇幅而内容基本不变，也可指缩短时间、尺寸、过程等。

  abbreviate v. 缩写，缩短

〔辨析〕通常用于缩写单词、名称，有时也指缩短演讲稿、小说、仪式、服装等。

  abridge v. 删节，节略

〔辨析〕主要指删去书、剧本等不重要的部分而保存其精华。

  condense v. 压缩，使简洁

〔辨析〕多指将讲话、文章等压缩，常与介词 into 连用。

verb

1. make more concise
   1. condense the contents of a book into a summary

   Synonym:    digestconcentrate

2. undergo condensation
   1. water condenses
   2. The acid distills at a specific temperature

   Synonym:    distilldistil

3. compress or concentrate
   1. Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan

   Synonym:    concentratecontract

4. develop due to condensation
   1. All our planets condensed out of the same material

5. become more compact or concentrated
   1. Her feelings condensed

6. cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid
   1. The cold air condensed the steam

7. remove water from
   1. condense the milk