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lessen

基本词汇

英 [ˈlesn]

美 [ˈlɛsən]

v.减少;减轻

过去式: lessened 过去分词: lessened 现在分词: lessening 第三人称单数: lessens

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v.(动词)
  • 减少,变少,减轻,变小,缩小,减小
  • 使减轻,使变小,使变少,削减
  • 藐视
  • 贬低,轻视,看不起
  • 减缓,减弱
  • 下降
  • 暗下去
  • 渐渐西沉

verb

1. decrease in size, extent, or range

e.g. The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester
The cabin pressure fell dramatically
her weight fell to under a hundred pounds
his voice fell to a whisper

Synonym: decreasediminishfall

2. wear off or die down

e.g. The pain subsided

Synonym: subside

3. make smaller

e.g. He decreased his staff

Synonym: decreaseminify

1. (使)缩小;(使)减少;(使)减轻
If something lessens or you lessen it, it becomes smaller in size, amount, degree, or importance.

lessen

e.g. He is used to a lot of attention from his wife, which will inevitably lessen when the baby is born...
他习惯了妻子对他的百般关注,但孩子出生后这种关注就会不可避免地减少。
e.g. Make sure that your immunisations are up to date to lessen the risk of serious illness.
要确保接种最新的疫苗,以降低患上严重疾病的危险。

lessening
...increased trade and a lessening of tension on the border.
边界地区贸易的增长和紧张气氛的缓和

1. 减少(生产成本):lengthen 延长 | lessen 减少(生产成本) | level 水平

2. 下降:上升:increase, rise ,ascend ,core, surge,go up, climb ,mount ,level... | 下降: decrease, fall, drop ,descend ,decline ,reduce ,lessen ,level down | 波动:fluctuate ,fluctuation ,rise and falls ,up and d...

3. lessen

3. 减少:lesson#功课 | lessen#减少 | return#回来

4. 使小;变小;减少:lesser更少的(地更小的(地) | lessen使小;变小;减少 | lesson教训, 训诫, 惩戒

  • 经典引文

  • Amongst the lessening throng of dancers.

    出自:Percy White
  • Soon the rain lessened.

    出自:D. Johnson
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Toolbelts free both hands and lessen the risk of dropping hammers.(工具带解放了双手,并减少了锤子掉落的危险。)
That would tend to lessen the possessiveness factor, I believe.(我觉得这会导致这种占有欲的减弱。)
Lessen the child's fever lessened during the night.(那孩子的发烧在晚上减轻了。)
And so would lessen the guilt.(而那会减少罪恶感。)
That should lessen its impact.(这应该会减轻漏油的影响。)
That does not lessen the shock value for a modern reader, even though war in our time is no less savage and no less brutal.(对于现在读者,它的震惊效果并未削弱,尽管现代的战争不再那样野蛮残忍。)
Keep to the track, where one exists, so you lessen the chance of damaging fragile plants.(在有道路的地方沿着道路走,这样你就很少会踩到柔弱的花草了。)
They have been looking to trust companies in particular to trim their balance sheets and lessen their regulatory burden.(他们一直指望着给那些努力削减其资产负债表的信托公司放贷,减轻其监管负担。)
An experiment in Japan found melatonine can lessen the harm done by radiation to the human body.(日本一项实验显示褪黑素能减轻辐射对人体所产生的危害。)
Derivatives allow them to lessen that risk.(金融衍生品降低了这种风险。)
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