整理大纲词汇的近义辨析 -------( 搜集大纲单词的熟词生意之姊妹篇 )

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relieve，Assuage ， alleviate，  lighten， mitigate

All of these verbs mean to make something less severe or more bearable. To relieve  is to ease and make more endurable something causing discomfort or distress:  

所有这些动词意味着使某事变得不太严重或更可忍受。

Relieve
To relieve  is to ease and make more endurable something causing discomfort or distress:  指缓解或使造成不快或压抑的某事变得可以忍受：

“that misery which he strives in vain to relieve”  (Henry David Thoreau).
“他徒劳地奋力去减轻苦难”  

“The counselor relieved her fears”  (Sir Walter Scott).
“顾问消除了她的恐惧”  

Alleviate
connotes temporary lessening of distress without removal of its cause:

Alleviate  指短暂的减轻压抑而没有解决其根源：

“No arguments shall be wanting on my part that can alleviate so severe a misfortune”  (Jane Austen). To assuage  is to soothe or make milder:  
“对我来说要减轻如此严重的不幸，不需要任何争论”  （简•奥斯汀）

Assuage 是抚慰或使更适度：

“What shall assuage the unforgotten pain/And teach the unforgetful to forget?”  (Dante Gabriel Rossetti).
“什么会抚慰不能忘却的痛苦/并且让无法忘怀的人学会遗忘?”  

Lighten  in this comparison signifies to make less heavy or oppressive:
Lighten  在这种比较中指使变得不太沉重或不太压抑：

Congress endeavored to lighten the taxpayers' burden.
国会努力减轻纳税人的负担。

Mitigate

and palliate  connote moderating the severity, force, or intensity of something that causes suffering:  
Mitigate  和palliate 都意味着减弱造成痛苦的事物严重性、力量或强度：

“I . . . prayed to the Lord to mitigate a calamity which seemed to me past the capacity of man to remedy”  (John Galt).
“我…向上帝祈祷，祈求他减轻这场人力所不能补救的灾难”  

“His well-known financial ability made men turn to him in the hour of distress, as of all statesmen the most fitted to palliate it”  (William E.H. Lecky).

“他广为人知的融资能力使得人们在痛苦的时候向他求助，就象最合适的政治家来减轻它一样”

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