詞匯釋義

abate /əˈbeɪt/ TEM8 IELTS GREverb, If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe. 減弱，減輕，減退

外刊例句

1. The forces that drive them into the sky eventually abate; erosion takes care of what is left behind. (The Economist)2. Threats to US financial stability have abated in the past year but vulnerabilities remain, including rising interest rates. (Financial Times)3. Covid-19 Pandemic Drives Municipal Borrowing to 10-Year High

The muni-issuance boom is unlikely to abate as cash-strapped local governments struggle to make up for ongoing Covid-19-related shortfalls. (The Wall Street Journal)

4. But the costs of abatement are uncertain, just as are the costs of failing to abate.(The Economist)

5. Community concern about carbon pricing did abate after its introduction. (The Guardian)

6. No, the prime minister says, because the budget emergency started to abate the instant a government came in and showed that it was determined to address it. (The Guardian)

7. She may then sell her body to survive.Many of these problems would abate if people were richer.(The Economist)

8. Of the 65% of companies surveyed by Point Carbon earlier this year which claimed that the ETS had led them to abate their emissions (up from 15% the previous year), most were planning to buy credits rather than cut their own emissions.(The Economist)

9. But most scholars reckon that the factors behind jihadism will only abate when the region's Muslim-majority societies become prosperous and politically and socially free.(The Economist)

10. Mr Abu Ghaith had warned that a "storm of airplanes will not abate".Stanley Cohen, the defence attorney, tried to persuade the jury that there was no evidence that his client played a major role in al-Qaeda activity.(The Economist)

11. On January 29th David Cameron, the Tory leader, withdrew his party's whip from Mr Conway, who has announced that he will stand down at the next election.Labour MPs are relieved to see the Tories sweat, for allegations of impropriety concerning their own deputy-leadership race last summer are yet to abate.(The Economist)

12. Add to that a burgeoning drugs trade, the presence of up to 15m illegal weapons and an official discourse that justifies violence in pursuit of class warfare, and there seems little doubt that Venezuela's crime wave will not abate anytime soon.(The Economist)

13. If the proposed pipeline followed a different route, Swedish concerns would abate.(The Economist)

14. But since he is an American citizen, he can simply be deported to the United States without undergoing a cumbersome extradition procedure.Nonetheless, Mr Valdez's arrest will soon be forgotten if violence does not abate.(The Economist)

15. Economic uncertainty, he says, discourages them from moving back, but that should abate.(The Economist)

16. The protests have triggered a debate about universities that is unlikely to abate soon.(The Economist)

17. Neither version suggests the conflict will abate http://soon.In this section François Hollande's African adventures Fighting on Justice denied?(The Economist)

18. The labour market is still tight; other inflationary pressures have yet to abate.(The Economist)

詞匯搭配

abate + anger, fear, storm

詞匯來源

abate, c. 1300, "put an end to" (transitive); early 14c., "to grow less, diminish in power or influence" (intransitive); from Old French abatre "beat down, cast down, strike down; fell, destroy; abolish; reduce, lower" (Modern French abattre), from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + battuere "to beat" (see batter (v.)). The French literal sense of "to fell, slaughter" is in abatis and abattoir. Related: Abated; abating.

近義詞

humble, depress, decline, ebb, fall through, fail, slack off, slake, slack, let up

反義詞

augment, accelerate, intensify, revive

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