alleviate
alleviate — 動詞
- alleviatepresent simple I / you / we / they
- alleviateshe / she / it
- alleviatedpast simple
- alleviating-ing form
1. to make a painful feeling, problem, or difficult situation less severe and easie
減輕；緩解
讓痛苦、問題或壓力變得比較不嚴重
to make a painful feeling, problem, or difficult situation less severe and easier to deal with.
The new medicine helped alleviate the pain in Grandpa's swollen knee.
新的藥物幫忙減輕了爺爺膝蓋腫脹帶來的疼痛。
alleviate + physical pain noun
The mayor promised that the new tunnel would alleviate traffic on Main Street.
市長承諾這條新隧道能緩解主街的交通壓力。
alleviate + problem noun (traffic, congestion)
Warm tea and a long phone call with Mei did little to alleviate Hannah's loneliness.
熱茶加上跟美怡的一通長電話，對減輕漢娜的孤單感幾乎沒什麼幫助。
alleviate + emotional state
Charity workers handed out blankets to alleviate the suffering of families after the earthquake.
慈善工作者發放毛毯，以緩解地震後災民家庭的苦難。
alleviate + suffering / hardship
Switching to a part-time schedule alleviated much of Daniel's stress at work.
改成兼職的工作時間，減輕了丹尼爾在工作上不少壓力。
- alleviate pain
- alleviate suffering
- alleviate poverty
- alleviate stress
- alleviate symptoms
- alleviate concerns
- help (to) alleviate
- do little to alleviate
文法句型
alleviate + noun
用法筆記
Object must be something unwanted: pain, suffering, stress, poverty, traffic, symptoms, fears. You cannot alleviate something neutral or positive. Often paired with partial-degree adverbs (somewhat, slightly, partially) because alleviating rarely removes a problem completely.
常見錯誤
同根字
- alleviation名詞C2
- alleviating形容詞C2
- alleviator名詞C2