abated

英 [əˈbeɪtɪd]

美 [əˈbeɪtɪd]

v.  (使)减弱，减退，减轻，减少
abate的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 减弱；减轻；减退
  If something bad or undesirableabates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
  1. The storms had abated by the time they rounded Cape Horn.
     他们绕过合恩角时，暴风雨已经减弱。
  2. ...a crime wave that shows no sign of abating.
     丝毫没有减弱迹象的犯罪势头

双语例句

• Just as anxieties over a potential disorderly default by Greece have abated, so a new threat to our fragile economic recovery has emerged in the form of a surging oil price.
  在人们对希腊可能无序违约的焦虑减轻之际，油价飙升又对脆弱的经济复苏构成了新的威胁。
• In retrospect, he said, he would have taken a much stronger view in the report on the drastic changes that would come about if greenhouse gas emissions were not abated.
  他表示，回想起来，在报告中，他本应对急剧的气候变化持更强烈的观点。如果温室气体的排放没有减少，这些变化就会发生。
• The pain and diarrhea abated, but he felt tired and weak since then.
  疼痛和腹泻都减轻，但自从那时起，他就感觉疲倦和衰弱。
• The storms had abated by the time they rounded Cape Horn.
  他们绕过合恩角时，暴风雨已经减弱。
• Their anxiety has not abated as the opening ceremony has drawn closer.
  随着开幕式已经临近，他们的焦虑却未见消减。
• During the 1990s, tensions gradually abated.
  在上世纪90年代，紧张局势逐渐缓和。
• After the downpour had abated, the soldiers returned to their bonfire to find that three of the dummies had been thoroughly burned, but that of Washington had miraculously survived.
  后来雨势减弱，士兵回到篝火前，只见三个肖像完全烧毁了，但华盛顿的肖像奇般没有被火吞噬。
• The wind abated.
  风势稍杀。
• It is easily abated by the use of penicillin.
  应用青霉素可以容易地把它消灭。
• My terror abated a little.
  我的恐惧稍有消减。