alleviation是什么意思？

alleviation

英[əˌli:vɪ'eɪʃn] 美[əˌlivɪˈeʃən]

• n. 减轻，缓解，缓和，镇痛物；

动词：alleviate;

例句

• poverty alleviation projects 脱贫项目
• Poverty alleviation has gone hand in hand with improvements in basic services. 扶贫工作与基础设施的改进是分不开的.
• The prevention and the alleviation sheds the varicosity symptom. 预防和缓解褪部静脉曲张症状.
• Their energies were focussed on the alleviation of the refugees' misery. 他们把精力集中在减轻难民们的苦难上。

英语六级真题

Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.
出自-2013年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  减轻，缓解（痛苦等）
  If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
  例句
  Nowadays, a great deal can be done to alleviate back pain. 如今，减轻背部疼痛可以有许多方法。 ...the problem of alleviating mass poverty. 摆脱普遍贫困的难题

英汉词典释义

• n.
  减轻,缓解,缓和
  poverty alleviation projects 脱贫项目

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced;
  "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
  2. the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance);
  "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"