Liberal economists haven’t silenced conservatives, but they have completely eclipsed liberal sociologists and liberal psychologists. Even noneconomist commentators reduce the rich texture of how disadvantage is actually lived to a crude materialism that has little to do with reality.

【翻译】自由主义经济学家并没有压制保守派，但他们已经完全超越了自由主义社会学家和自由心理学家。甚至是非经济学家的评论员，也将不利因素在现实中是如何克服度过的丰富内涵，归纳为与现实毫无关系的赤裸裸的物质享受。

【分析】现在重点分析第2句的结构和意义。注意英汉词语颜色的对应。

句子主干：主语 + reduce + 宾语 + to ...（结果状语）。

1. 主语：Even noneconomist commentators

2. 谓语动词：reduce  （词组：reduce ... to... “归纳为；归结为”）

3. 宾语：the rich texture of how disadvantage is actually lived

4. 介词短语to a crude materialism that has little to do with reality作结果状语。

5. 在宾语中，of之后是一个名词性从句：how disadvantage is actually lived。意为“不利因素在现实中是如何克服度过的”。live 是及物动词，意为“度过”。

6. that has little to do with reality是定语从句，修饰a crude materialism。意为“与现实毫无关系的赤裸裸的物质享受”。

7. reduce ... to... “归纳为；归结为”。

reduce ... to...  有8种意思，现归纳如下：

1. 把…粉碎为，捣碎为；碾碎为：

A crushing machine reduces big rocks to powder.

粉碎机能把大石块轧成粉末。

2. 换算成：

To reduce pounds to pence you multiply by a hundred.

镑乘以一百就折合成便士。

3. 把…归纳为；把…简化为：

We can reduce his argument to three basic facts.

我们可以把他的论点归纳为三件主要事实。

4. 使身体瘦弱；使精神衰弱:

Worry about the business reduced him to a nervous wreck.

生意上的烦恼事把他愁得不成人样了。

5. 使丧失(尊严)；使陷入(困境)：

Most peasants were reduced to eating grass and leaves during the severe famine in 1934.

在1934年严重饥荒期间，大多数农民都吃草和树叶。

6. 把(化合物)分解为：

This substance can be reduced to a single chemical and oxygen by passing an electrical charge through it.

通电后，这种物质可以被分解为一种单一的化学制品和氧。

7. 把…降职为：

The head nurse was reduced to ordinary nurse due to malpractice.

这位护士长由于玩忽职守被降职为普通护士。

8. 把…驳倒；把…贬得一文不值：

Her clever speech reduced the speaker's argument to nonsense.

她的机敏的发言把讲演人的论点驳成一派胡言。