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

• His appetite lessens as his illness progresses.
  随着病情的加重，他的食欲下降了。
• Polluted water lessens crop yields.
  受污染的水源会降低农作物产量。
• The new drug lessens the severity of pneumonia episodes.
  新药减轻了肺炎发作时的痛苦。
• Eating a good diet significantly lessens the risk of heart disease.
  良好的饮食习惯能大大减少患心脏病的机率。
• Light lessens as evening comes on. There is still no fundamental improvement in the weak agricultural base.
  随着黄昏的来临，光线逐渐变弱。农业基础脆弱的状况还没有根本改变。
• Results EIPA protects myocardial cells of DM rats and lessens I/ R damage in the animal models.
  结果动物模型显示EIPA可以减轻再灌注心肌细胞损伤。
• 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。
• Lessens the number of second party audits.
  减少第2聚会审计的数字。
• 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。
• If you do some light shoulder exercises regularly, you will find that it lessens the pain.
  如果您能有规律地轻微地锻炼肩关节，疼痛是可以减轻的。