1.(使)变小,变少,减弱,减轻to become or make sth become smaller, weaker, less important, etc.
The noise began to lessen.噪音开始减弱。
to lessen the risk/impact/effect of sth减少某事物的风险╱影响╱效果
Use of these funds, giving more time to cut deficits, was intended to lessen the recessionary impact of trying to do so at once.
这些贷款资金让各国有更多时间来削减赤字,从而削弱立即减赤导致的衰退效果。
It is only such a process of democratization and reconstruction that would truly lessen the salience of Libya's enduring divisions.
只有通过这样一个民主化与复兴之路才会真正减缓利比亚突出的持久分裂的国情。
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。
The finding suggests that it "doesn't make sense to take vitamin C 365 days a year to lessen the chance of catching a cold, " he said.
该发现说明,没有必要为了减少感冒可能性而一年365天每天服用维生素C,他说。
For some time all that Elinor could do was to soothe her sister's distress, lessen her alarms, and combat her resentment.
在若干时间内,埃莉诺只能抚慰妹妹的悲痛,缓和她的震惊,抑止她的愤懑。
"More could lessen or even undo" any benefits, he said, by overloading the muscles' receptors or otherwise skewing the body's response.
如果通过使肌肉的受体超负荷运转,任何对一点对身体的好处就会偏离。
A fiscal stimulus worth a total of around 1. 4% of GDP a year may lessen the pain, even if it is not big enough to end it.
每年相当于GDP1.4%的财政刺激即使不能大到足以结束危机,也该能减轻点痛苦吧。
My failures do not lessen my worth in God's sight. I matter so much to God that it warranted an all-out search to rescue me.
我的失败不会减低我在神眼中的价值,我对神来说是如此重要,以致祂必须彻底寻找我,拯救我。
Yeah. And the next step might be to test whether the extent to which you feel comfortable socially helps lessen the pain of rejection.
是的,而且下一步可以是去测试你在社交中感到的舒适度的程度能否帮助你减少被拒绝的痛苦。
Wall said he wants to lessen his province's dependence on the U. S. , the destination for the bulk of Canada's resources.
沃尔说,他希望减少萨省对美国的依赖。美国是加拿大资源的主要目的地。
But one tech has found a few workarounds to lessen some of the aggravation.
我们的一位技术人员已经想出了一些规避措施来减轻这些烦扰。
At this point, you would attempt to find ways to prevent this failure or at least lessen its severity or impact.
在这个时候,你会想要找出避免失效或至少减轻严重度冲击的方法。
But, rather than leave so much of our fate to chance, we'd be better off doing what politicians always say they want to do: lessen the U.
但是,与其让我们自己的命运等待机会,我们还不如像政治家们所说的那样做:减少美国经济对石油的依赖。
It has been proved that this application can lessen calculation burden and improve the efficiency of financial faculties.
实践证明,这一方法的应用大大减少计算工作量,提高财务人员的工作效率。
I do not desire to see it diminished, nor would I endeavor to lessen it in any man.
我并不希望它衰颓,也无意降低任何人的信仰。
As the bank ramps up investments in renewable energy, it hopes to gradually lessen its reliance on the coal-dependent national grid.
随着银行增加可再生能源的投资,它希望能够逐渐减少对于主要靠碳发电的国家电网的依赖。
eg. 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。
The true reason is, of course, to lessen the risk of a slump, when on his own estimate output is already 10 per cent below trend.
真实原因当然是为了降低衰退的风险,按照他自己的估计,目前产出已低于趋势水平10%。
Thatcher had no time for conventional, Keynesian economists who urged her to use government money to lessen the pain.
撒切尔没有时间遵循常规了;凯恩斯主义的经济学家力劝她增加政府支出以缓解痛苦。
"If you're eating chips in front of the television, anything the school lunches are going to do is not going to lessen that, " he said.
“如果你看电视时吃薯片,学校午餐时做什么都没用,”他说。
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