lessen
['lesn]
v.减少, 减轻
例句与用法:
A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.
淡色通过加白色使浓度变化而形成的一种颜色分级
Something that separates potentially antagonistic entities, as an area between two rival powers that serves to lessen the danger of conflict.
缓冲物,缓冲地带可用来隔离潜在的对抗性因来的东西,如面敌对势力用来减轻冲突危险的地带
The pain was already lessening.
疼痛已在减轻。
词形变化:
动词过去式: lessened | 动词过去分词: lessened | 动词现在分词: lessening | 动词第三人称单数: lessens |
vi.
变小, 变少; 减轻
The heat will lessen during the evening.
晚上热气会减弱。
vt.
1. 使变小, 使变少; 使减轻
The talk lessened the tension.
这次交谈缓和紧张局面。
2. 【古】藐视; 贬低
lessen
过去式:lessened
过去分词:lessened
现在进行时:lessening
词形变化:
动词过去式: lessened | 动词过去分词: lessened | 动词现在分词: lessening | 动词第三人称单数: lessens |
同义词:
decrease | diminish | reduce | lower | slacken | decline | minimize | cut | tail off | ease off | let up | die down | moderate | abate | bate | mitigate | dwindle | minify | relax | ebb | subtract | deduct | decimate | allay | soothe | constrict | deplete | narrow | contract | wane | shrink | quell | palliate | condense | clip | assuage | ease | attenuate | relieve | retrench | underestimate | extenuate | modify | truncate | alleviate | appease | temper | mollify | fail | away | weaken | abbreviate | languish | shorten | pare | decay | lighten | curtail | shrivel | wither | subside | abridge | erode | fade away | melt away | waste away | thin | out | take | cut short | taper | depress | fall | loosen | silence | take away | soften | thin out | stem | short | scale | fade | waste | melt |
反义词:
词义辨析:
同义:
v.减少
abate
decrease
diminish
lower
mitigate
bate
ebb
moderate
relax
slacken
v.贬低
decline
wane
fade away
melt away
dwindle
weaken
attenuate
fail
languish
waste away
shrivel
wither
decay
erode
v.缩小, 收缩, 删节
reduce
retrench
minify
shrink
constrict
contract
narrow
pare
truncate
clip
condense
shorten
abridge
abbreviate
curtail
cut short
v.减轻, 缓和
allay
assuage
alleviate
palliate
appease
soothe
relieve
ease
mollify
lighten
quell
modify
moderate
temper
extenuate
softpedal
underestimate
v.减去, 使变少
deduct
subtract
take away
deplete
thin out
decimate
同义参见:
depress
taper
soften
loosen
subside
decrease1
minimize
silence
scale1
stem2
lower1
反义:
vt.vi.变小; 减少; 减低
increase
raise
lessen['lesən]vt.1.■减少,使变小,使缩小,使减轻:to lessen production costs降低生产成本to lessen the tension减少压力2.■[古语]轻视,藐视;贬低;抹杀:to lessen a person's feat抹杀某人的功绩vi.1.■减少;变小;缩小;减轻:The difference between the city and the countryside lessens gradualy.城乡差别逐渐缩小。conj.1.■[美国方言] 除非(=unless)
lessenlessen[ˈlesn]vt.1.■缩小, 减少; 减轻2.■贬低; 轻视
词性变化lessen[ˈlesn]vi.1.■变小, 变少
verb
- make or become less; diminish
(使)变少;缩小
[with obj.]the years have lessened the gap in age between us.
岁月缩短了我们之间的年龄差距。
[no obj.]the warmth of the afternoon lessened.
下午降温了。
lessen
■Prune birch, beech and maple trees after a hard frost to lessen sap flow.
樺樹,山毛櫸和楓樹應在結霜之後修剪,以减少樹液的流失.
■It especially was curative effect to eliminate and lessen anisometropia.
LASIK术后近视眼患者裸眼远近距离立体视觉有一定的改善,尤其是LASIK对消除或减轻屈光参差有良好的疗效。
■"As a localized treatment, it might lessen the pain and perhaps ease this very painful disease," said Alexeev.
“作为一种局部治疗,它也许可以减轻疼痛,缓解这种极其痛苦的症状。”阿莱克谢耶夫说。
■Can a person get initiated today, and right away or maybe in a short time be able to help the people that he loves to lessen their suffering?
一个人在今天印心的话,是否马上或很快就能帮助他所爱的人,减轻他们的痛苦?
■Some drugs lessen a person's sensibility.
一些药物会减低一个人的敏感度。
■It has always been a dream of mine to go to college, but that didn't lessen the butterflies in my stomach, or my lack of confidence.
上大学一直是我的一个梦想,但进了大学并没有消除我内心的紧张,也没有给我带来自信。
■Diminish, lessen, subside, reduce, curtail The rain did not abate the crowd's enthusiasm for the baseball game.
下雨并没有消减观众看棒球比赛的热情。
■Won’t that lessen the excitement though?
不过 这样兴奋感不就会减少吗?
■But all that does not lessen his importance as a pioneer.
不过,所有这一切并不贬低他开辟新途径的研究者的功绩:
■However, there are ways to lessen the financial burden.
不过,有些方法可以减轻财政负担。
■A colorless reducer (magnesia in linseed oil) used to extend lithographic inks and lessen their color strength.
中义减色剂,使平版油墨容易延展并降低色强度。
■To lessen the pain, some people chose to relinquish all responsibility.
为了减少痛苦,有些人选择放弃所有责任。
■To lessen the chances of injury to the gelding, I made sure we were in an area where the ground was soft.
为了教训并下下马威,我必需确定我们所在的区域,其地面是柔软的。
■To lessen the financial burden on NGOs, it is proposed the Lotteries Fund to allocate additional resources to NGOs for this purpose.
为减低机构的财政负担,我们建议透过奖券基金为机构提供额外援助。
■To lessen peer(group) pressure,many schools require their students to wear uniforms.
为减少来自同龄群体的压力,许多学校要求学生们穿校服.
■Malolactic fermentation is vital to lessen the wine's acidity.
乳酸发酵是至关重要的减少葡萄酒的酸度。
■Research at Arizona State University suggests that getting lots of vitamin C may lessen the ime you have a cold by one to two days.
亚利桑那州立大学的研究显示,服用大量维生素C可以使患感冒的时间缩短1到2天。
■Human beings may still lessen the violence by correcting their treatment of nature and fellow human beings. Meanwhile, Martin admonishes us to pray.
人们仍有机会可以藉由修正对待大自然以及对待其他人的方式而减少剧烈的震荡。
■People plant trees on desolate hillock, in order to lessen water and soil erosion.
人们在荒丘上种植了树木,以减少水土流失。
■Garlic is supposed to lessen the risk of heart disease.
人们认为大蒜能够低心脏病的危险性。
■The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.
人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。
■Surface or local warming-up of specific limbs will result in earlier fatigue and will also lessen work output.
仅对特定某肢体的表面或局部的准备活动会过早产生疲劳,而且还会削弱训练效果。
■I had early labor from the third month, and was told that I had to stay in bed to lessen the chance of losing Noah.
从怀孕的第三个月起我就有早产的迹象,医生让我卧床以减少失去小诺亚的可能。
■He never believes in divine requital.If it did work, he reasons, how come troubles never lessen in the world?
他从不相信因果报应11,如果那样,这世上麻烦事不就少多了?
■They have made great effort to lessen the noise of planes .
他们尽力减小飞机的噪音。
■They are doing everything possible to lessen tensions between the two nations.
他们正在尽一切可能缓和两国之间的紧张局势。
■They believe it helps cure diseases. A piece of ice can help lessen the pain. This cream will help stop the bleeding.
他们相信洗咖啡浴有助于治疗疾病。一块冰块有助于减轻疼痛。这药膏有助于止血。
■He was already exhausted, and then we should lessen his misery rather than disappoint him.
他已经很疲惫了。我们应该减轻他的痛苦,而不是让他失望。
■While He does not palliate sin, nor lessen the sense of guilt, He seeks not to condemn, but to save.
他并不袒护罪恶,不减轻人对自己罪恶的感悟。但他不是要定人的罪,而是要救人。
■But he underlines it is absolutely imperative to develop green solutions to lessen the impact that climate change will inevitably bring.
他强调发展生物能源的绝对必要性.说这将缓和气候变化所带来的不可避免的影响.
■I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
伯16:5但我必用口坚固你们、嘴消解你们的忧愁。
■But some are likely to lessen competition.
但也存在一些可能弱化竞争的合并。
■But she said it did lessen her desire to eat cabbages!
但她说,却使她不太愿意吃卷心菜了。
■But further safety measures, including head gear that would lessen the impact of any knock to the head, might be warranted, he said.
但将来可能会出现一些保护装置,比如可以用来减轻撞击对头部影响的头部装备,他说。
■But health campaigners fear that the details will lessen any impact theban might have.
但是推崇健康生活的人们担心,很多细节问题会削弱禁令的效果。
■This did not lessen the enthusiasm of Eurosceptics for bashing the document.
但是这也不减少欧洲怀疑论者对这个文件进行批评的兴趣。
■The groins that water permeability is greater than 60 percent could lessen more than 0.8 m deep erosion.
低丁坝的保滩护塘机理主要体现在三个方面:即对涌潮潮头的阻挡作用,对涌潮快水的减冲作用和在落潮期回流淤积作用。
■What you have now said doth not lessen my idea of your capacity; but confirms my opinion of the ill effects of bad and low company.
你刚才说的这番话并没有降低我对你的才能的估计,却证实了跟下流人在一起是有损无益的。
■Take some aspirin for(ie to lessen the pain caused by)your headache.
你头痛吃点阿司匹林吧.
■You must be frank with me, if you wish to secure my good opinion, and lessen the risk of inconvenience to yourself.
你必须对我老老实实,如果你希望我替你说好话,而减轻你的不便。
■Do you know how to set manifdder on the lessen or enlarge pattern?
你知道怎么将复印机设定在缩印(放大)模式上吗?
■To lessen in intensity; temper.
使强度减轻;调和
■Exposed susceptible people who are immunocompromised should be given immune globulin to lessen the risk and severity of clinical illness.
免疫缺陷者等易感者接触病毒后应注射免疫球蛋白,从而降低发病的危险性和严重性。
■It tends to lessen inequality among countries and increase it within them.
全球化减少国与国之间的贫富差距,但是却加剧了一个国家内部的不均衡现象。
■That's the reason they are called lesson,because they lessen from day to day.
其所以被称为lesson(功课)的理由,是因为日见其lessen(减少)。
■That 's the reason they are called lesson, because they lessen from day to day .
其所以被称为lesson(功课)的理由,是因为日见其lessen(减少)。
■That 's the reason they are call lesson , because they lessen from day to day .
其所以被称为lesson(功课)的理由,是因为日见其lesson(减少)。
■Helpful to augment efficiency, lessen dealing Costs, promote exchanging amount are its economic feature.
其深刻的经济义理表现为有助于效益的提高,减少交易费用,提高成交量。
■The goal was to unfreeze tight credit and lessen the severity of an economic downturn that has spread across the globe.
其目的是缓解信贷紧缩和降低世界性经济下滑的严重程度。
■To lessen our shame, we did take one prize off them, when a shot from an arquebus blew a hole the size of the Eucharist in the chest of their leader, the great Charles de Bourbon.
减少我军耻辱的是,我们确实干掉了敌军的大人物,当时一支火绳枪射出子弹,在他们的伟大领袖,波旁的查理胸膛轰出圣杯那么大的伤口。