palliate
palliate 英 [ˈpælieɪt] 美 [ˈpæliˌet]
vt. 减轻；掩饰；辩解
进行时:palliating 过去式:palliated 过去分词:palliated 第三人称单数:palliates
- When you palliate something, you try to make something less bad: “City leaders tried to palliate effects of the trash haulers' strike by distributing extra large garbage cans with tight-fitting lids.”
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- vt. 减轻；掩饰；辩解
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1. I shall never attempt to palliate my own foible by exposing the error of another .
你不能用别人的恶行来掩饰自己的劣迹。
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2. When souls are in peril, God's ministers will not consider self, but will speak the word given them to speak, refusing to excuse or palliate evil.
当人灵命遇见危险时，上帝的仆人决不会顾惜自己，却要讲说所交给他传讲的话，而不肯原谅或文饰罪恶。
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3. And, though nothing should be allowed to palliate the guilt of the great betrayal, it may become more intelligible if we think of it as the outcome of gradual failing in lesser things.
和，什么事都没有，应允许减缓有罪伟大的背叛，它可能会更加理解，如果我们把它作为结果，逐步未能在较小的东西。
- palliate (v.) "alleviate without curing," early 15c., from Medieval Latin palliatus, literally "cloaked," from past participle of Late Latin palliare "cover with a cloak, conceal," from Latin pallium "cloak" (see pall (n.)). Related: Palliated; palliating; palliation.
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