lessen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 减少， 减轻； 缩小，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently, we must not lessen her crew."
-- John Mangles had installed himself at the starboard, and entrusted to Wilson a sort of oar to steady the raft against the current, and lessen the leeway.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The change that has taken place in him cannot lessen his love for his neighbors; on the contrary, that change can only intensify love in his heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'On thatunderstanding,' said my aunt, 'though it doesn't lessen the realobligation, I shall be very glad to leave him.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If he would be so good as to read to them, it would be a kindness indeed!It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith's.'
-- He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his re-pugnance.
-- Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle but that is not the change I had in view for you.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had known heartbreak herself, andnight after night she lay beside the snoring Gerald, trying to think of some way to lessen Scarlett's distress.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, 315and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Having made which bargain, Tom,' said Harthouse, clapping him on the shoulder again, with an air which left him at liberty to infer as he did, poor fool that this condition was imposed upon him in mere careless good nature to lessen his sense of obligation, 'we will tear ourselves asunder until dinner-time.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To all this Clennam merely replied that, granting the whole protest, nothing in it lessened the force, or could lessen the force, of the voluntary and public exoneration of his partner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!Oh!the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desparate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections or endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!
-- Of these, the Jew was, at all events, sufficiently remarkable to be remembered, supposing he had been seen drinking, or loitering about; but Giles returned without any intelligence, calculated to dispel or lessen the mystery.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But it must very materially lessen their chance of marry-ing men of any consideration in the world,' replied Darcy.
-- The next was in these words: 'I do not pretend to regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire, except your society, my dear-est friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence.
-- Neither had anything occurred in the intelligence of their Lambton friends that could materially lessen its weight.
-- 'My object then,' replied Darcy, 'was to show you, by ev-ery civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor sat down to her drawing-table as soon as he was out of the house, busily employed herself the whole day, neither sought nor avoided the mention of his name, appeared to interest herself almost as much as ever in the general concerns of the family, and if, by this conduct, she did not lessen her own grief, it was at least prevented from unnecessary increase, and her mother and sisters were spared much solicitude on her account.
-- Should the result of her observations be unfavourable, she was determined at all events to open the eyes of her sister; should it be otherwise, her exertions would be of a different nature she must then learn to avoid every selfish comparison, and banish every regret which might lessen her satisfaction in the happiness of Marianne.
-- Elinor derived no comfortable feelings from this conversation, to lessen the uneasiness of her mind on other points; she was left, on the contrary, with a melancholy impression of Colonel Brandon's unhappiness, and was prevented even from wishing it removed, by her anxiety for the very event that must confirm it.
-- You must know best what will be its effect; but had I not seriously, and from my heart believed it might be of service, might lessen her regrets, I would not have suffered myself to trouble you with this account of my family afflictions, with a recital which may seem to have been intended to raise myself at the expense of others."
-- Her first communication had reached no farther than to state the fact of the engagement, and the length of time it had existed. Marianne's feelings had then broken in, and put an end to all regularity of detail; and for some time all that could be done was to soothe her distress, lessen her alarms, and combat her resentment.
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