Alleviate
[ə'liːvɪeɪt] or [ə'livɪ'et]
解释:
(v. t.) To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
(v. t.) To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate.
(v. t.) To extenuate; to palliate.
整理:理查德
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Lighten, mitigate, assuage, moderate, soothe, soften, mollify, allay, quiet, still, quell, abate, lessen, diminish, relieve, palliate, ease, dull, blunt.
爱德华整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Lighten, lessen, assuage, mitigate, soothe, moderate, relieve, remit, diminish
ANT:Aggravate, enhance, increase, embitter, augment
卡特编辑
解释:
v.t. to make light: to mitigate.—ns. Alleviā′tion; Allev′iātor.
整理:内莉
例句:
- Her theme was their wants, which she sought to supply; their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- We can only delay its progress--alleviate the pain it causes. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- If Idris became thin and pale, it was anxiety that occasioned the change; an anxiety I could in no way alleviate. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Why, then, should I pass the rest of my days in torture when I can alleviate such mental suffering? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It may be that if we knew more of such strange afflictions we might be the better able to alleviate their intensity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I replied, that nothing ailed me save anxiety of mind, which I hoped soon to alleviate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- May seemed to be aware of his disappointment, but without knowing how to alleviate it; and they stood up and walked silently home. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I never lie down at night but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow-creature in the time of need. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Regretting that all my efforts for alleviating the sufferings of wounded men left upon the battle-field have been rendered nugatory, I remain, &c. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The home electrical is not complete without containing at least some of the electrical appliances which have been designed for the purpose of alleviating pain. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In other countries, the system of taxation, instead of alleviating, aggravates this inequality. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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