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词汇 mitigate
释义 mitigate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ us /ˈmɪt̬.ə.ɡeɪt/
to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad: 使缓和;减轻(危害等)
It is unclear how to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island.还不清楚如何缓解旅游业对这个岛屿的影响。
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mitigate | American Dictionary


mitigate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈmɪt̬·ɪˌɡeɪt/
to make something less severe or less unpleasant:
Getting a lot of sleep and drinking plenty of fluids can mitigate the effects of the flu.

mitigate | Business English


mitigate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/us
to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad:
technologies that can mitigate global warming
mitigate damage/riskThe company was criticized for failing to mitigate risks at the plant.
mitigate the effects/impact of sthThere isn't much more we can do to mitigate the negative effects of rising oil prices.
 mitigating circumstances
LAW
situations that are not an excuse for a crime, but that a court of law may consider to be important enough to reduce the blame or punishment of the accused person:
The judge said that there were no mitigating circumstances that would result in a lesser punishment.

Examples of mitigate


mitigate
As such, ethnicity as ideology provides a psychological formula which mitigates the uncertainties of state- society relations.
Older women's more limited access to retirement funds is, however, mitigated among those whose spouses were government workers, because typically they share the benefits.
Consequently, does society have a moral obligation to mitigate the differences in health for which we are personally responsible?
However, distributional effects caused by a change in relative price could mitigate the potential increase in the wage earned by low-skill workers.
Moreover, measuring the extent of a person's desert of punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions about excusing and mitigating circumstances.
How can this therapist-client epistemological incompatibility - apparently a clear-cut prescription for therapeutic failure - be traversed or at least mitigated?
There has always been a divide between secure middle-class families and poorer working families and the government's policies are plainly intended to mitigate that divide.
An orientation to the appropriateness of utilizing epistemic phrases in engaging in "amicable" disagreements by delaying and mitigating a dispreferred is demonstrated several lines down.
It can be hunted down, challenged to reveal itself and then eliminated, mitigated, or accepted.
These may serve to mitigate the general severity.
For the defender, the actual costs of fighting are mitigated by the payoff he receives from continuing possession.
Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result.
This benefit, however, is partly mitigated by neutralizing antibodies that were detectable in 38% to 42% of patients by year 3 (27;46).
Does the role of family networks in migration reinforce or mitigate such differences?
In so doing, it mitigates the often-remarked chasm between experimental researchers and applied practitioners of reminiscence and life review interventions.
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