abatement
abatement 英 [ə'beɪtmənt] 美 [əˈbetmənt]
n. 减少；消除；减轻
名词复数:abatements
- An abatement is a deduction, or lessening. If you start bluntly telling people what you think of them, you might see an abatement in their friendliness toward you.
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- n. 减少；消除；减轻
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1. It is suffering from a four year old siege, the destruction from Israel's war and now a continued siege, with no sign of any real abatement.
以色列发动的战争使该地区经历了长达四年的破坏和封锁，目前仍无减轻的迹象。
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2. The project, which targets industrial pollution, sells emission reductions to the Bank and others, with a portion of the revenues going to the government’s new pollution abatement program.
这个定位于工业污染的项目把减少的排放卖给世行和其它机构，将收入的一部分用于政府新的减轻污染方案。
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3. Forests and plants remove carbon from the atmosphere, potentially accounting for more than 40% of carbon abatement opportunities between now and 2020.
从现在到2020年期间，森林和其他植物吸收大气中的碳，有可能提供超过40%的碳减排机会。
- abatement (n.) "act or state of being decreased or mitigated" in some way, mid-14c., from Old French abatement "overthrowing; reduction," from abatre "strike down; reduce" (see abate). Now mostly in the legal sense "destruction or removal of a nuisance, etc." (1520s).
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