Relieve
[rɪ'liːv] or [rɪ'liv]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) provide physical relief, as from pain; 'This pill will relieve your headaches'.
(verb.) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; 'relieve the pressure and the stress'; 'lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents'.
(verb.) take by stealing; 'The thief relieved me of $100'.
(verb.) free from a burden, evil, or distress.
手打:洛伊斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
(v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
(v. t.) To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
(v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.
(v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.
(v. t.) To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
(v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
科尔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Succor, aid, help, assist, comfort.[2]. Allay, mitigate, assuage, soothe, lessen, palliate, ease, remedy, cure, remove.[3]. Put in relief, set off by contrast.
手打:罗莎琳德
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Help, succor,[See _ALLEVIATE]
整理:希欧多尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to remove from that which weighs down or depresses: to lessen: to ease: to help: to release: to support: to mitigate: to raise the siege of: (art) to set off by contrast: (law) to redress.—adj. Reliev′able.—n. Reliev′er one who or that which relieves: (slang) a garment kept for being lent out.—adj. Reliev′ing serving to relieve: (naut.) a temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel in a storm.—Relieving arch an arch in a wall to relieve the part below it from a superincumbent weight; Relieving officer a salaried official who superintends the relief of the poor.
黛西手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To relieve them, I ordered a renewal of the assault. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He becomes careful to instruct them, and attentive to assist and relieve them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- As for Jane Fairfax, she might at least relieve her feelings from any present solicitude on her account. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Certainly, I answered-- unless I relieve you of all necessity for trying the experiment in the interval. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I asked at once that Sigel might be relieved, and some one else put in his place. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- We felt immensely relieved. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He did so, and I at once relieved him from the command of the 13th army corps and ordered him back to Springfield, Illinois. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But the enemy relieved me from this necessity. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- So when Mrs. Woodcourt went away, I was sorry to lose her but was relieved too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- No nurse fit to wait on her being at hand in the neighbourhood, her ladyship the Countess and myself undertook the duty, relieving each other. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Relieving him of his trappings, which I flung down beside him, we left the poor fellow to his fate, and pushed on with the one thoat as best we could. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- In some cases, by relieving pain, they give the system the rest necessary for overcoming the cause of the pain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The man-servant came hastening to the door, and there he was, relieving Gudrun of her umbrella, and then of her raincoat. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Then they defeated a great relieving army from Mosul. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- However, I'm glad the thing is cleared up: it relieves one's mind to have things cleared up. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- This co-operation in no sense relieves the authors of responsibility as to any of the views or statements of their own that the book contains. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Do let me cry a few minutes; it relieves me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My best girl, he had said, relieves me from these phantasies. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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