| 单词 | relief |
| 释义 | relief1 /n'lkf; n'lif/ n [U] (used with the indef art as in examples, but not normally in the pl) (血例句所示与不定冠词连用，惟一般都不用复数) 1 lessening or ending or removal of pain, distress, anxiety, etc: (痛苦、困苦、忧虑等的) 减轻; 解除： The doctor's treatment gave/brought some/not much ~. 医生的治疗使 (稍使，未能使) 病情减轻。 A doctor's task is to work for the ~ of suffering. 医生的工作是解除病痛。 She heaved a sigh of ~ when she was told that the child's life was not in danger. 当她听到孩子无生命危险时，才松了一口气。 To my great -the difficulties were all overcome. 使我大为欣慰，困难全都克服了。 It 心 $ a great ~ to find the children safe. 发现孩子们平安无事，觉得很放心。 2 that which brings ~ (1); help given to those in need; food, clothes, money, etc for persons in trouble: 减轻或解除痛苦之事物; 给予贫者或需要者的帮助; 救济物 (食品、衣服、金钱等)： send ~ to people made homeless by floods; 送救济品给那些因水灾而变为无家可归的人们; provide ~ for refugees; 赈济难民; a '~ fund; 救济基金; 赈款; a road, alternative road for one that has heavy traffic. 为减轻原来道路之拥挤交通而设的另一道路; 间道。 3 sth that makes a change from monotony or that relaxes tension: (冲淡单调或裁弛紧张的) 调剂： We crossed wide stretches of moorland without ~, with no change of scenery. 我们走过一大片景色单调的荒野。 Shakespeare introduced comic scenes into his tragedies by way of ~. 莎士比亚把喜剧的情节穿插于悲剧中, 使观众的心情放松。 4 ~ (of), reinforcement of a beseiged town; raising (of a siege): (围城的) 救援; 解咽： The general hastened to the ~ of the fortress. 将军火速前往救援该堡垒。 5 (replacing of a person, persons, on duty by a) person or persons appointed to go on duty: 换班; 接替; 换班卷; 接替者： on duty from 8am to 8pm with only two hours' ~; 从上午八时到晚上八时値班，中间只有两小时的替换; happy to know that the ~ is on the way; 听到接替者要来了很高兴; (at-trib) (形容用法) a '~ driver. 轮替的驾驶员。 |
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