单词:lessen
vi. 变小
v make smaller
v wear off or die down
考试类型:[四级/六级]
lessen的用法和样例:
例句
- The Japanese should lessen their working hours.日本人应该减少工作时数。
- We should be able to lessen the damage to the city here.在这里我们必须能够减少对这个城市的损坏。
- This medcine can lessen the pain in no time.这种药可以立刻减轻痛苦。
- Regular exercise can help to lessen the pain.经常运动有助于减轻痛感。
- Coming back here didn't lessen my confusion and pain.回来之后我的困惑和苦恼并没有减轻。
经典引文
Amongst the lessening throng of dancers.
出自:Percy WhiteSoon the rain lessened.
出自:D. Johnson
- decrease减少
- diminish减少
- reduce减少
- lower低的
- slacken使松弛
- decline下降
- minimize将 ... 减到最少...
- cut切
- tail off变小
- ease off减轻
- let up减少
- die down渐渐消失
- moderate适度的
- abate缓和
- bate减少
- mitigate减轻
- dwindle减少
- minify使变小
- relax休息
- ebb退潮
- subtract减去
- deduct扣除
- decimate毁掉大部分
- allay减轻
- soothe缓和
- constrict压缩
- deplete耗尽
- narrow有限的
- contract合同
- wane衰落
- shrink收缩
- quell压制
- palliate减轻
- condense浓缩
- clip夹住
- assuage缓和
- ease容易
- attenuate变细
- relieve救济
- retrench减少开支
- underestimate低估
- extenuate <古>减轻
- modify修改
- truncate切去一端
- alleviate减轻
- appease安抚
- temper脾气
- mollify安慰
- fail失败
- away离开
- weaken使 ... 弱,削弱...
- abbreviate缩写
- languish衰弱无力
- shorten弄短
- pare削减
- decay(使)衰退
- lighten使轻松,变得轻松...
- curtail缩减
- shrivel(使)枯萎
- wither枯萎,干枯
- subside沉没
- abridge删节
- erode腐蚀
- fade away逐渐消失
- melt away(使)融化
- waste away日益消瘦
- thin薄的
- out出
- take拿
- cut short中断
- taper小蜡烛
- depress使沮丧
- fall落下
- loosen松开
- silence沉默
- take away拿走
- soften(使)变柔和
- thin out变淡
- stem柄
- short短的
- scale刻度
- fade逐渐消失
- waste废物
- melt融化
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