lessens

英 [ˈlesnz]

美 [ˈlesnz]

v.  (使)变小，变少，减弱，减轻
lessen的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）缩小；（使）减少；（使）减轻
  If somethinglessensor youlessenit, it becomes smaller in size, amount, degree, or importance.
  1. 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。
  2. Make sure that your immunisations are up to date to lessen the risk of serious illness.
     要确保接种最新的疫苗，以降低患上严重疾病的危险。

双语例句

• Some social commentators believe that a woman's economic independence lessens her desire to get hitched.
  一些社会评论家认为，一个女人的经济独立，缩小了，她渴望结婚。
• Paying those off frees up precious cash and lessens the worry of forgetting to pay bills.
  把这些账还完，会腾出宝贵的现金，并减轻忘记还款的担心。
• The new drug lessens the severity of pneumonia episodes.
  新药减轻了肺炎发作时的痛苦。
• Reporting conservatism lessens the likelihood of failing to issue a going concern opinion when appropriate.
  报告保守主义减少了不能适时给出持续经营意见的可能性。
• We said that this in no way lessens the grief, but it does perhaps help us prepare for the event.
  我们说这决没有减轻痛苦，但是可能确实帮助我们为这一事件做好了准备。
• Another, activated charcoal, lessens the danger of poisons.
  第二种是活性炭，它可以减少中毒的危险。
• The smelting reduction process saves energy and lessens pollution through using of ore fines without any pretreatment and agglomeration.
  由于使用无需任何预处理和造块的矿粉，熔融还原法既可节能、又能减少污染。
• A single quality buyer like Temasek lessens the political problem, said one person involved in the sale.
  由淡马锡这样高素质的单一买家接手，减轻了政治方面的问题，一名参与这次出售的人士表示。
• It lessens the depth of the burn, which speeds healing, which in turn limits scarring.
  水减小烧伤深度，从而加快愈合，反过来减少疤痕。
• This scheme lessens efficiently multicast traffic in network, and reduces multicast tree maintenance costs, but does not cause multicast data delivery to incur too large delivery delay.
  该方案有效地减少了网络中的多播通信量并降低了多播树的维护代价，却没有给多播数据传输带来太大的延迟。