Mitigate

(verb.) make less severe or harsh; 'mitigating circumstances'.

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• She bent forward, lowering her voice to mitigate the horror. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Almost every attempt to mitigate the hardships of industrialism has had to deal with the bogey of liberty. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I am quite sure that you can mitigate in no other way the wrong and harm you have done. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so little, and the number of the species will almost instantaneously increase to any amount. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Hold, father, said the Jew, mitigate and assuage your choler. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She hung over the patient in agony, which was not mitigated when her thoughts wandered towards her babes, for whom she feared infection. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The illness lasted long, left her very weak, and returned at intervals, though with mitigated severity, again and again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The acute economic clashes of the earlier period had been mitigated by rough adjustments. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By irrigation, on the other hand, man restores the desert to life and mitigates climate. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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