abates

英 [əˈbeɪts]

美 [əˈbeɪts]

v.  (使)减弱，减退，减轻，减少
abate的第三人称单数

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

• When we probe it at deeper layer and quest for the social driving force behind it, this is an evolutional course wherein the traditional value represented by the Puritan Ethic group gradually abates and the secular culture continually develops.
  从其背后深层次的社会推动力来看，则是以清教伦理为代表的传统价值观逐渐弱化和市场经济导致的世俗文化不断发展的过程。
• Choose the impermeability protective agent-trehalose which plays an important role in stabilizing hepatocytes membrane and protein structure and abates cell swelling. 3.
  选用非渗透性保护剂海藻糖（trehalose），起到稳定细胞膜和蛋白质结构的作用，减轻低温状态下细胞水肿。
• Of course, when the national emergency abates, much of China will revert to its familiar ways.
  当然，当国家紧急情况缓和下来，中国基本上将回复到它平常的样子。
• Manages the production materials, ensures that the material is in consistent with the list, and abates the wastes.
  对生产线的物料实施管理，确保在线物料的准确一致性，并降低物料的消耗。
• As rain abates and floodwaters recede, aid officials warn of a looming public health crisis brought by diseases carried in water or by insects.
  随着雨量转小、洪水消退，救援官员发出警告称，洪水和蚊虫携带的疾病可能造成一场迫在眉睫的公共卫生危机。
• Equities will find it hard to make headway in 2009 and there will not be a strong recovery until credit market conditions show real signs of improvement and forced selling abates.
  股市会发现，在2009年很难取得进展。而且，在信贷市场显示出真正好转的迹象以及被迫抛售的情况减轻之前，不会出现强劲的反弹。
• Natural oxides of iron and manganese with surface charges and variable valence elements have favorable surface activities. Being the typical and potential oxidants, they can decompose and oxidize reducing phenolic compounds in sedimentary environment, and the oxidative degradation abates poison to fauna and flora.
  在沉积环境中，带有表面电荷、含有变价元素的天然铁锰氧化物是典型的潜在氧化剂，能与还原性的酚类化合物发生反应，从而减轻对动植物的毒害。
• Objectives Partial hepatectomy induces a rapid transformation within the remnant liver, prompting a wave of hepatocyte mitosis which abates when the lost cell mass has been recovered.
  目的肝切除引起余肝发生急剧改变，肝细胞分裂，代谢加速，直至丢失了的肝细胞得到完全补充为止。
• The body of old people is in the aging process, body function abates and is not so healthy, which easily lead to loss, the life cannot provide for oneself.
  由于老年人身体处于衰老过程，身体机能减弱，健康状况下降，往往容易导致失能，生活不能自理。
• That suggests a weaker dollar if and when the economic crisis abates.
  这说明，一旦经济危机消退，美元就会走弱。