词汇：lessen

vt. 使…变小；使…减轻；使…变少

相关场景

The sheriff, a balding man named Owensby, had of course heard of Call and was eager to show him the prisoner. The jail had only three cells, and Blue Duck was in the middle one, which had no window. The others had been cleared, minor culprits having simply been turned loose in order to lessen the chances that Blue Duck might somehow contrive an escape.

警长，一个名叫欧文斯比的秃顶男人，当然听说过Call，并渴望向他展示囚犯。监狱只有三间牢房，蓝鸭在中间一间，没有窗户。其他人已经被清除，小罪犯只是被释放，以减少蓝鸭可能设法逃跑的机会。

>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇

She was not there helping. Of course, if she had been there helping, there would have been trouble, but that didn’t lessen the aggravation of what Gus had done. He could simply have given her money—he had money. As it was, every time Call sold a bunch of stock to the Army he had to put aside half the money for a woman he had never approved of, who might, for all any of them knew, have already forgotten Gus and married someone else, or even gone back to being a whore.

>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇

Of course, Newt knew that Lorena was a whore. It was an awkward fact, but it didn’t lessen his feelings for her one whit.

>> Lonesome Dove 孤鸽镇

It will lessen the resistance considerably.

>> 孤筏重洋 Kon-Tiki (2012) Movie Script

Ordinarily, this would lessen the duration of precipitation.

>> 巨石怪 The Monolith Monsters Movie Script

We think we can lessen the incidents

>> 食品公司 Food, Inc. Movie Script